Day: March 8, 2010

2010 Anal-Ocity #6

Anal Statements on the Right…anal statements on the Left……anal statements everywhere…..what would the Info Ink’s Anal-Ocity Awards be without Sarah Palin?  She has another one in the running….

Recently Ms Palin was a guest on Jay Leno’s new show and she said these immortal words:

I studied journalism, my college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think the mainstream media is quite broken and I think there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there — that’s why I joined Fox. Fair and balanced, yes. You know because, Jay, those years a go that I studied journalism it was all about the who, what, when, where, and why, it was not so much the opinion interjected in hard news stories. … As long as there is not the opinion under the guise of hard news stories — I think there needs to be clear differentiation.

God I love this stuff!  Apparently all news organizations are editorialized except for Fox……..(long silence)…..please give me a moment to collect myself……Are you sh*tting me?

But I do not see where the media is editorializing….maybe some of the cable guys….of which FOX News is a member…..If a person has his/her name attached to the show, then it ALL is editorializing…..but to say that ALL other news groups are wrong in their reporting is just insanity…..and “fair and balanced” label attached to FOX is even more insane…..



Is A “Minimal” State Possible?

Inkwell Institute

Professor’s Classroom

Subject:  Political Theory/Government/

Paper #6

As usual I must give the usual suspect the credit for turning me on to this subject (and the headaches that go with it) Quin of Quintessential Havoc (my blogroll will get you this this insightful person and his site)…..we have had exchanges on the need to limit and/or reduce the size of government….I first studied this subject when I was in grad school and the subject of Libertarianism was taught……

If you have even a small grasp of politics then you already know that the Libertarians are all about smaller government….but it goes beyond just the smaller size issue…there are those within the movement that see a way to all but eliminate government altogether…basically foreign policy would be the only thing that a Federal government would be in control of…if they got their way……..

I believe it was Robt. Nozick that said that it was not the state’s place to propose an end solution to the problems of society (that may be a bit simplified, but you get the idea)…that to bring about economic equality would entail the government interfering unacceptably in individual’s liberties……he believed that state taxes were a forced labor by government to redistribute wealth…( I guess that is a common Libertarian belief)…..

Nozick proposed a “Minimal State”….meaning that the state was to be cvonsigned to foreign policy and all else would be privatized, including such services as the police…..he believed the fundamental rights of property overrode everything else and to legislate it was a communal overriding of the individual’s well being….

So Nozick’s minimal state would be small, every Libertarians dream, and the people would be left to their own devices….basically, to me it says, people will be poor because they want to be poor…….

I do not agree with him…..I think that a government free from interference would produce a vast society of ignorant, unemployed and homeless individuals….I think many people would agree that this cost would be a bit excessive…….

So is a “minimal state” possible?…….I think not….for a true economic justice would be good for the country as a whole, both rich and poor alike…….a balance needs to be found between NO justice and Maxed out justice….there is a balance point but so far it has eluded me as well as everyone else…..