By: Chris
@Martin: And people will justify that through all sorts of means – the US being necessary to stop the spread of fascism and communism, being instrumental in the creation of Israel, and so on. And the...
View ArticleBy: Roger Moore
@Chris: Even if we assume the Founding Fathers were geniuses, one and all, it completely ignores two critical points: 1) Part of their genius was to acknowledge their own fallibility. They knew...
View ArticleBy: 1badbaba3
@Chris: Fortunately it’s not all Americans. Most of us know the history and keep current. It’s just those pesky few that can’t seem to make it past 1863.
View ArticleBy: Sir Nose'D
Kay nails it right here: Liberals build the commons, conservatives and libertarians use and benefit from the commons, then they launch lucrative careers dedicated to destroying the commons. Q.E.D....
View ArticleBy: Ronzoni Rigatoni
@Yutsano: As I recall, the Great Charter did define certain rights, but only rights granted to the Aristocrats. This seems to be a Republican theme these days. Of course, since I am an Aristocrat, I...
View ArticleBy: Brachiator
@Roger Moore: Even if we aren’t as wise as the Framers, we do have an extra 220+ years of practical experience in self government. At the time the Constitution was written, it was a genuinely novel...
View ArticleBy: The Other Chuck
@Roger Moore: The founders also made some collossal blunders, not the least of which was the formation of the Senate. They didn’t take into account the creation of states with less population than...
View ArticleBy: PurpleGirl
@NancyDarling: Read the comments, and they are good. From looking at the angle of the picture, it looks like he has his hands wrapped around his knee. But it is a bad angle for a picture.
View ArticleBy: g
Wonder whether the Miami U Alumnus, Paul Ryan, supports his Alma Mater with donations.
View ArticleBy: Carl Nyberg
It’s exasperatingly ignorant to claim that rights come from God. They come from people believing that rights exist and then putting in place mechanisms—fucking government in most cases—that protects...
View ArticleBy: gluon1
Also, the Boston Herald (?!) points out that Ryan, who has never stopped saying that the Recovery Act never created jobs, is also one of those Republicans who wrote letters asking for stimulus money...
View ArticleBy: jl
@Bubblegum Tate: @Valdivia: I hate to be cynical, but I doubt Ryan knows or cares much about Aquinas at all. He needs some standard and respectable religious authority to cite to get the stink of Ayn...
View ArticleBy: A Farmer
Miami University was created through an act of Congress, so Miami traces its roots to the feds, not just the state (and was a requirement of a government land privatization project): The foundations...
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