For several years now, I’ve been wondering if the United States could one day transform into, well, a totalitarian hellhole. But when I’ve had such thoughts, I usually tell myself, “It’s unlikely. When you look at history, the general trend is towards things getting better. That includes governments becoming more free. In the history of [...]
Category Archives: politics
It gets better, but sometimes it gets worse first
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 12, 2011
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Rick Perry thinks pandering to bigotry > preventing innocent people from getting beaten and killed
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 9, 2011
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Obama has decided that the United States is going to use foreign aid to promote gay rights abroad: “I am deeply concerned by the violence and discrimination targeting L.G.B.T. persons around the world,” Mr. Obama said in the memorandum, referring to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, “whether it is passing laws that criminalize L.G.B.T. [...]
Why does anybody (who isn’t rich) still vote Republican?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 8, 2011
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I decided to post this one on Facebook. (Edit: Wait, no, on request from a reader, I’m posting it here.) I’m not saying the Republican Party is all bad. Just mostly bad. I mean, Ron Paul’s strong anti-war and pro-civil liberties stances put most allegedly liberal Democrats to shame. (Ron Paul on wanting to abolish [...]
Skepticism is about the process
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 29, 2011
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Since writing this post, I’ve avoided writing anything about alleged sexism in the atheist movement, in part because a lot of the debate centers around things allegedly said in blog comment threads (which I mostly don’t read) and other people’s hate mail (which I obviously don’t read at all.) But now there’s been another very [...]
Glenn Greenwald’s With Liberty and Justice for Some (a review)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 22, 2011
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Glenn Greenwald’s With Liberty and Justice for Some is an extremely important book. I don’t exaggerate when I say it’s a book everyone in the United States should read, something I don’t normally say about even my favorite books. Greenwald makes the case in the United States today, rule of law is disappearing. Instead, we [...]