Reading that delightful hack job on Lew, as well many of comments to his speech, got me to thinking: Conservatives aren’t so much clamoring for “government-defined freedom” — the freedom to love one’s government and be loyal to it — as they are apparently driven by a sense that it is every human being’s fundamental right to have a government they can (or possibly must) love. Americans are odd in that they define freedom almost exclusively by how they are governed, and tend to view the liberty of non-Americans only in the context of how those people are governed. Of … Continue reading Re: I’m the Cover Boy of FrontPageMag.com

My favorite odd moment from the article by Laksin attacking not only Lew but LRC in general: He refers to “[Lew’s speech’s] paranoiac allusions to a dissent-crushing ‘state’”. Why the scare quotes around “state”? Is the U.S. government a tea party? A haddock? Later the author lets us know what he thinks: “the U.S. government… representing the democratic consensus of the American people”. Ah! So it is not a “state”, it is just representing the will of the people. Well, no problems there. Conservatives have always loved governments that represent the democratic will of the people. (I note that the … Continue reading Re: I’m the Cover Boy of FrontPageMag.com