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Entries from August 2005

Conservatives and movies

August 18th, 2005 · No Comments

I had a conversation yesterday with a small group of acquaintances on Hollywood movies. The following comment was made regarding the current Dukes of Hazzard flick: “I’m not interested in seeing it…. if it isn’t something I can take my teenage kid to see, then I certainly don’t want to see it.”
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Tags: General

Spurlock: an update

August 13th, 2005 · 2 Comments

By way of update on a previous post (now in April 2005 archives), I’d like to draw some attention to the recent work of one Soso Whaley, who has responded to Morgan Spurlock’s ridiculous anti-McDonald’s documentary “Super-Size Me”.
But first let me backtrack a couple of steps. Spurlock is a leftist. Like most leftists, […]

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Response to Blair’s anti-terror announcements

August 7th, 2005 · No Comments

A libertarian struggles occasionally with the dichotomy between the principals informing his politics and the fact that, sometimes, he quite likes some of the more statist proposals being made by various political voices. A possible example of this is Tony Blair’s anti-terrorism announcement this past week with implications for those who preach hatred in […]

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Tags: War