Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Sarah Palin gives a shout out to libertarians I went looking for the Palin clip after watching the video here: The Libertarians Are Coming. When McCain added Palin to his team I became an enthusiastic Republican again. These days I’m more of a TEA Party libertarian. The atheist wing of the TEA Party. Despite the…

I have seen a lot of fake media stories like the above lately, and the common reaction in the conservative camp is outrage. I think the fact that the left has to rely on fake stories to support their claims (this one involving poverty) is actually a good thing. It’s hardly the only one. I have never known…

Welcome to the police state. Check your rights at the door. “They just pulled us out of the car. Put our hands behind our backs like we were criminals,” said Emmanuel Hurd. “He asked me who’s the girl. She’s my student. I said I had a notarized letter from her parents stating that we have…

H/T Reason Magazine Update: 4 December 2013 2015z Students For Liberty

From Mark Steyn: A couple of weeks back, cancer patient Bill Elliot, in a defiant appearance on Fox News, discussed the cancelation of his insurance and what he intended to do about it. He’s now being audited. Insurance agent C Steven Tucker, who quaintly insists that the whimsies of the hyper-regulatory bureaucracy do not trump…

I am sorry to see that Bob Dylan is getting sued for racism in France over a remark he made about Croatians in passing during an interview. It’s another reminder of the freedom we still have in the United States that is wholly lacking in most of the world, which many want to take away…

Seriously. So says David Plouffe, who was 0bama’s campaign manager in 2008. You can read about it here. In so far as the www site goes it doesn’t work at all now. At least it didn’t for CNN in a test on 1 December 2013. You can watch the test at the above link. My…

They are on the left, they are incredibly wealthy, and they want to tell their underlings how to live.  An interesting article titled “Silicon Chasm” discusses this wealthy, politically correct elite, and the twisted way in which they believe they are the shepherds and the true benefactors of those who have less money than they…

There is a Joe from HuffPo who says you do not need to be worried about hackers at the ObamaCare(less) site because hacking happens all the time. So true. OK. Suppose the government loses your Social Security number to hackers. Will they do what credit card companies do and issue you a new one? How…

Obama and his minions are touting the number of people enrolled in 0bamaCare(less). But that is not the relevant metric. The relevant metric is the number of people who have obtained insurance. Some people (no metric on how many) are not getting insurance. ACOSTA: Does that mean that people who thought they were insured when…

From Evi L. Bloggerlady we get: Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday in light of President Barack Obama’s declining poll numbers, maybe he should take a page from an infamous Canadian mayor. “I think the best thing he can do is take a toke on the mayor of Toronto’s crack pipe, because his numbers are…

I was wondering. At the same time China was going opium mad, opiates (including heroin after it was invented) were freely available in the US. Could anyone explain why our use rates never approached China’s? Links if you have them. There is some evidence that during prohibition, the average age of onset of alcohol use…

I saw this comment The private sector is already creating their response to Obamacare. Primary care clinics are being opened, that offer only primary care for $25 cash. No insurance, no Obamacare, no exceptions. $25 is less than the co-pay in one of Obamacare’s crappy policies. Obamacare’s ‘pay more for less’ redistribution scheme will fail…

H/T Forbes Commenter Edna R. Sexton who said: On Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto” on Wednesday, computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc. John McAfee said the online component of Obamacare “is a hacker’s dream” that will cause “the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities.” For starters,…

Reading this article, it’s quite obvious that the dominant philosophy in the War on Drugs is that it’s better to prevent people who need pain relief from getting it than to allow the possibility that it might get to people who really don’t need it to have it. Lugano, Switzerland –- A ground-breaking international collaborative…

Well here is the headline: Crucial weekend for Obamacare website begins with a shutdown Which was not unexpected. At least by me. But that is not the most interesting thing I found at the “Crucial weekend…” site. I perused the comments and didn’t find one single one saying anything positive about ObamaCare(less). Evidently they are…

You can watch Naked Lunch with Peter Weller free. Well some one is paying. But other than the bandwidth (you) I have no idea who.

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Pointman has a post up on the COP 19 climate conference. A taste: As predicted by all but the most deluded pundits, it actually was a complete waste of time and taxpayer’s money. It was never going to result in a Warsaw Pact. Nothing of any significance was signed up to except where the next…

Don’t let that turkey get away from you — not even if it tries to turn the tables on you like this: A cute little culture war in miniature, from long ago. Wonderful social commentary. (I might suggest that a better title might have been “Don’t Ax, Don’t Tell,” but the hell with politics!) However,…