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Kicking the Can Down the Road, Cementing Cans

2019.03.04 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Kicking the can down the road, cementing cans.

When citizens want one thing and lobbyists want another, often we end up kicking the can down the road; we should be cementing cans after they’re kicked.

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Posted in: Medicine, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Partisan Politics

Liberal and Conservative, Left and Right

2018.08.28 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
The Liberal Bell

In popular usage, ‘left’ and ‘right’ have come to mean the same thing as ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative,’ respectively. This is a critical mistake.

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Posted in: Books, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Hammer Thinking, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Wisdom

Socialist Governments vs Capitalist Markets

2018.08.22 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Socialist Government vs Capitalist Markets

Socialist governments vs capitalist markets, left vs right. These obscure the point: the only true American ideology should be pragmatism.

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Wisdom

Dead, Dead, Dead: The Thanatocracy

2017.10.08 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

Constitutional fundamentalists, like other fundamentalists, yield thought and free will in worship and submission to the dead authority of the thanatocracy, a system that is dead, dead, dead.

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Posted in: Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Tolerance, Wisdom

Alienable Rights

2017.07.13 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Alienable rights

Guarantees are human constructs, not divine. If we do not provide and protect our beliefs, they are simply alienable rights.

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Wisdom

Bernie, Populist Financing, and the 1st Branch of Government

2016.05.23 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

Senator Bernie Sanders is a phenomenon. Actually two phenomena. First, there are the planks in his platform which, despite much outcry to the contrary, are hardly new.

And then there is the populist financing he has attracted…

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics

Scientific Fundamentalism

2016.04.27 by Bookscrounger 7 Comments

It is interesting that scientists rail against Christian fundamentalists, because so many scientists are equally fundamentalist about their own disciplines. Let us begin with examples, data; let us use science against the scientist. I have previously mentioned Bernard Barber’s paper, ‘Resistance by Scientists to Scientific Discovery‘, and Thomas Kuhn’s slender but essential – and largely … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Knowledge Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Intellectual Abuse, Wisdom

Which Conservatives?

2016.04.01 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

South Louisiana is famous for a number of things, the food, the festivals, the language, the joie de vivre.  But most all, it is the music that has carried the culture into the international spotlight. It wasn’t always that way.  You can buy t-shirts that read ‘Chank-a-Chank’, which is one of those pejorative-cum-pride things.  Chank-a-chank … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Liberal and Conservative, Wisdom

The New US Founders

2016.03.23 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments

In one of the recent presidential debates, a panelist asked Ben Carson what he would do about ‘grey’ drugs, life-saving medicines that have recently seen astronomical price inflation.  My ears perked up.  For some time I have wondered about how we might resolve the tension, and where the balance point lies, between the considerations of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Knowledge, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Hammer Thinking, Liberal and Conservative

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