Aside from some longwinded discussions on homosexuality (and my tireless reiterations to the effect that it should be such a non-issue), the more educated debate appears to derive from a band called The Saddle Sores - ahem! - listen here for their take on the gay issue as depicted in the recent Academy Award winning […]

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Many times this blog has called for individual responsibility to be the guiding principal of lawmaking. It is individual responsibility (and the sovereignty of the individual) that sets libertarianism apart from other ideologies.
A simple example of this principal in a political argument:
1) If one chooses to ride a motorcycle, their safety is their responsibility […]

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I’ve avoided mentioning Al Gore’s climate change movie ‘The Inconvenient Truth’ until now. My excuse is that I haven’t seen it, and although I know Gore’s version of events well enough to privately predict that it is witless hogwash, in the interests of reason I like to give the benefit of the doubt in […]

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I’ve had several comments to the effect that my position on climate change policy ignores information from climatologists; that it is ignorant of scientific observations. In case my previous posts on the matter (for example this) haven’t been clear enough, let me state my actual position so that the discussion can start from there, […]

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The constitutional amendment which would have banned gay marriage was defeated in the United States Senate today, despite President Bush’s public calls in favour of it. Bush said that the institution of marriage needs taken out of the hands of “activist judges” and put back into the hands of the American people.
Except… there are […]

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