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They tell me diversity of thought is good, an end in of itself. That it may foster critical thinking skills – and, thereby, work as a means towards ultimate truth – is both incidental and bordering on the irrelevant.

Now I don’t buy into the relativistic claim but, as it turns out, blogivists.com is ideologically diverse! I mean, don’t get me wrong – everyone here believes that government is, more often than not, the anti-solution but even so, there’s quite a bit of variety here when it comes down to the specifics.

To demonstrate, let’s look at the past couple months. I’ll name a few issues and give you a couple pro and con posts from within the Blogivists community. Hot dawg!

(Man-made) Global Warming

Pro:

• projectpetition is pure HORSESHIT! – The Midnight Rider (7/10)
• Breaking Down the Global Warming “Debate – The Midnight Rider (8/06)

Con:

• Man-made Global Warming Consensus Disintegrating – Principle Over Party (7/17)
• Change the Climate Change Debate: Reality is not a Democracy – Extremism in Defense of Liberty (8/08)

Open Borders

Pro:

• GET THEM OUT: Border Jumpers Ruining Our Economy – Liberty is for me (7/7)

Con:

• Hispanosupremacists Infiltrate Evangelical Movement – The Epistolizer (7/12)
• Libot Media, Always On The Side of Illegals – Malignant Liberal Idiocy (8/17)

English as the National Language

Pro:

• Does Anyone Speak English Anymore – In my right mind (7/9)

Con:

• On Liberty, Ideology, and some R-E-S-P-E-C-T – Pragmatically Political (7/10)

Bob Barr

Pro:

• Bob Barr is my homeboy – Nicky Cheese (5/26)
• “McCain fundraiser” – Standard of Living (6/27)

Con:

• Why Bob Barr is NOT your homeboy – Pragmatically Political (6/29)

The Republican Party

Pro:

• The Republican Brand is not Dead – Free Thought for Self-Restrained Minds (7/17)

Con:

• GOP collapse: Should we groan or cheer? – Eric O’Keefe (5/19)
• Limited government no more – The Silent Majority (6/18)
• More signs that Republicans still suck – Eric Odom (7/29)

There you go. And that’s just off the top of my head. Really! So, what I’m getting at here is: with a more thorough internal investigation, we could probably apply for some kind of government subsidy…

Haha. Just kidding! I think that’s one specific we’re unanimously against.

Cheers…to truth and liberty!

Last week the talk of the town was the Farm Bill. With Wednesday’s presidential veto of the bill – a rare instance of fiscal restraint for W indeed – the collective jabber continues, taking on a celebratory tone for opponents of pork and government waste. You know, that thing that was once considered a “conservative” value. These days – not so much…

As Night Twister laments:

Finding a true conservative in Congress these days is like finding a farm growing anything other than corn…or Renewable Energy as it is now called.

Ugh. Ethanol subsidies…don’t remind me.

Fortunately ‘Twister is on top it, giving Rep. Marilyn Musgrave – a self-proclaimed conservative who has pledged to “lead the fight” in overriding Bush’s veto – a little econ 101.

As for waste at the local level, in Chicago it appears we need an ethics class because no amount of Keynesian indoctrination could produce the following level of disrespect for taxpayer investment…

Coming from our own Rock’s Rantings, we get wind of Alderman’s Lyle’s magazine subscription to Communist Party propaganda and, moreover, $1,480 that was spent by Alderman Latasha Thomas to mow the pathetic, dinky strip of grass you see on the left-hand side of your screen.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…

What’s the solution? How do we put a end to this culture of political corruption?

As Eric O’Keefe’s Monday-morning post put it, don’t look for hope in our political parties. They’re not the solution.

They are now quasi-governmental entities run by incumbents to expand their power. They offer no check on the power of government; and they are so heavily regulated by government that there is no prospect of reviving them…

Liberty is in retreat because our political parties are controlled by incumbents in government whose goal is to increase their power over taxpayers. Only private, voluntary organizations can hope to preserve and promote principles that limit incumbents to their proper roles.

The solution is us. You, me – all of us.