Free to Think

antiprolife:

If you claim to be “pro-life” while simultaneously telling others to kill themselves, please step back and evaluate your behavior. 

If you see no difference in suicide and murder, you might want to shut up.

(via thecheekylibertarian)

In one of my classes the subject of internet censorship came up. To my surprise (and dismay) many of my classmates were in favor of censoring some content! Their reasons were basically A.) Pornography is bad B.) Children….

I cannot comprehend how personal and parental responsibility has sunk this low. What is even funnier (or sadder?) is that they advocate the censorship and never allude (or even think) of who would do the censoring? (The Federal Government) What standard will be used? (Whatever standard that some interest group was able to lobby some congresspeople to care about). Furthermore, they never even once stopped to think how every government who has had the power to censor in the history of the world, was oppressive and tyrannical. 

politicalblogdirectory:

Ronald Reagan: “Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.”

Found at: thepoliticalcarnival.net

He was right…at the time. At the time he said this Social Security was in the black and was fully funded. Then during the Clinton years it was raided to pay down the deficit, switching funded liabilities into unfunded ones. Nice try….

Thomas Sowell- A Healthcare Crisis

Starting at the 5:48 mark, Dr. Sowell explains the differences in statistical collection about infant mortality rates in the United States vs. Europe 

infrequentia:

The next time someone tries to tell you Ronald Reagan was a great president, remind them that his drug policies are directly responsible for the fact that we incarcerate more of our citizens than any other country in the world.

The U.S. makes up 5% of the world’s population, and we make up about 25% of the world prison population.  Think about that for a second.

So let me get this straight: Prison population jumps under Reagan by 500K, yet jumps under Clinton by a MILLION, and Reagan is the bad guy? OOOOOK? To be sure, Reagan was wrong to expand the ‘War on Drugs’ but, that is wholly different from claiming his entire Presidency was bad because of it. 

Furthermore, you are acting as if statistics from the rest of the world are accurate and complete. To believe that there are more prisoners here than in China or India or Russia is the height of gullibility! Also, different countries have different methods for statistical collection. But keep believing simple charts explain everything…

• Conservatives: Hostess just went out of business...
• Liberals: Good! Their food was nasty!
• Conservatives: 18,500 people lost their jobs...
• Liberals: Who cares! Fuck Twinkies!
• Lets try this argument another way
• Liberals: GM is going out of business
• Conservatives: Good! Their cars sucked anyway
• Liberals: You heartless prick, 30,000 people will lose their jobs
• Conservatives: Who cares! If they had a better business model they wouldnt have failed.
• Its funny when you see Liberals using Conservative arguments, but even when they do, they cant help but be assholes about it.

Asshole to religious people
Trying to destroy peoples faith
Holier than thou attitude
Evolutionary ignorant
Ingratiated to a superior sense of self
Self Congratulating
More annoying than religious people


There, fixed it for ya… 

(via carnerdlian)

communismkills:

Not sorry.

Neither am I. Support Civilization, Down with Barbarism

(via carnerdlian)

“Utopia In Power: History of the Soviet Union 1917-Present” (1988)

“If Marshall were merely stupid, the laws of probability would dictate that part of his decisions would serve this country’s interest”

Yep..The same John Kerry who went to Vietnam and came back and denounced all his “buddies” as War Criminals and baby killers….Yea, that guy!