Comments on: Renaming the paradigm *UPDATED* http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:55:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rhymes With Right http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23985 Rhymes With Right Sat, 24 May 2008 20:54:03 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23985 <strong>Watcher's Council Results...</strong> The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Republicans Ponder The Abyss by Wolf Howling, and Blog For Human Rights -- May 15th, 2008 by The Whited Sepulchre.  Here is where you can find the full...... Watcher’s Council Results…

The winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are Republicans Ponder The Abyss by Wolf Howling, and Blog For Human Rights — May 15th, 2008 by The Whited Sepulchre.  Here is where you can find the full……

]]> By: The Colossus of Rhodey http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23878 The Colossus of Rhodey Fri, 23 May 2008 10:42:24 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23878 <strong>Watcher's Council results...</strong> And now...  the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Republicans Ponder The Abyss by Wolf Howling, and Blog For Human Rights -- May 15th, 2008 by The Whited Sepulchre.  Here are the full tallies of...... Watcher’s Council results…

And now…  the winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are Republicans Ponder The Abyss by Wolf Howling, and Blog For Human Rights — May 15th, 2008 by The Whited Sepulchre.  Here are the full tallies of……

]]> By: Watcher of Weasels http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23876 Watcher of Weasels Fri, 23 May 2008 07:36:39 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23876 <strong>The Council Has Spoken!...</strong> First off...  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now...  the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Republicans Ponder The Abyss by Wo... The Council Has Spoken!…

First off…  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now…  the winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are Republicans Ponder The Abyss by Wo…

]]> By: Soccer Dad http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23847 Soccer Dad Thu, 22 May 2008 09:48:46 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23847 <strong>Submitted 05/22/08...</strong> The Watcher's Council submissions have been posted. Before I get to this week's business, be aware that a seat on the Watcher's Council has opened. If you blog and have an interest in joining this weekly blog review follow the instructions here. Is ... Submitted 05/22/08…

The Watcher’s Council submissions have been posted. Before I get to this week’s business, be aware that a seat on the Watcher’s Council has opened. If you blog and have an interest in joining this weekly blog review follow the instructions here. Is …

]]> By: Richard Disney http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23812 Richard Disney Wed, 21 May 2008 21:26:46 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23812 boqueronman, you have encapsulated very well why I now use "collectivist" and "individualist" to identify competing interests. boqueronman, you have encapsulated very well why I now use “collectivist” and “individualist” to identify competing interests.

]]> By: boqueronman http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23806 boqueronman Wed, 21 May 2008 21:14:34 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23806 The familial bonds of authoritarian "left" and "right" are indissolubly linked. The terms "collectivist" and "individualist" seem more edifying because it allows so-called NGOs, labor unions and academics, now largely captured by collectivist forces, to be properly categorized. Remember that the terms "right" and "left" refer to political elements of the National Assembly after the French Revolution. To include any individualist philosophy - conservative (U.S. variety), libertarian or anarcho-capitalist - anywhere on the ideological spectrum of post-revolutionary France is obscuring rather than enlightening. The familial bonds of authoritarian “left” and “right” are indissolubly linked. The terms “collectivist” and “individualist” seem more edifying because it allows so-called NGOs, labor unions and academics, now largely captured by collectivist forces, to be properly categorized. Remember that the terms “right” and “left” refer to political elements of the National Assembly after the French Revolution. To include any individualist philosophy – conservative (U.S. variety), libertarian or anarcho-capitalist – anywhere on the ideological spectrum of post-revolutionary France is obscuring rather than enlightening.

]]> By: David Foster http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23771 David Foster Wed, 21 May 2008 12:52:10 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23771 echhecone..."Reagan’s expansions began almost immediately with his intervention with airline traffic controllers"....do.not.understand. First, they are not "airline traffic controllers," they are "air traffic controllers"--they control air traffic of all types, not just airline traffic, and they are government employees, not airline employees. Given the the FAA is an executive department of the Federal Government (part of the Department of Transportation), how could it possibly be an expansion of executive power for the President to "intervene" in the operations of this agency? echhecone…”Reagan’s expansions began almost immediately with his intervention with airline traffic controllers”….do.not.understand.

First, they are not “airline traffic controllers,” they are “air traffic controllers”–they control air traffic of all types, not just airline traffic, and they are government employees, not airline employees.

Given the the FAA is an executive department of the Federal Government (part of the Department of Transportation), how could it possibly be an expansion of executive power for the President to “intervene” in the operations of this agency?

]]> By: Watcher of Weasels http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23749 Watcher of Weasels Wed, 21 May 2008 01:42:05 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23749 <strong>Submitted for Your Approval...</strong> First off...  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now...  here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher's Council for this week's vote. Council li... Submitted for Your Approval…

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]]> By: echeccone http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23629 echeccone Sat, 17 May 2008 14:23:16 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23629 Oldflyer, I didn't make the case for Democrats being necessarily less interested in centralizing power. In fact, I heed Lord Acton's warning that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. My response is to Bookworm's apparent point that all centralizing of power is by definition leftwing based. Maybe that wasn't her point, but it is an oft-heard criticism of liberals even as conservatives has been as bad. I agree that FDR expanded executive power to unprecedented levels at that time, but the next zeniths occurred under Nixon, Reagan and Bush. There is an interesting article from John Dean, White House counsel under Nixon, to document his actions in this regard(http://hnn.us/articles/printfriendly/1192.html), Reagan's expansions began almost immediately with his intervention with airline traffic controllers and continued through the administration with the circumvention of a Congressional ban on intervening in Nicaragua (Iran-Contra). Bush's expansion post 9/11 has made the others look rather wimpish and are so recent and well-reported that I need not repeat them here. Danny, I wasn't saying that these actions were extra-constitutional, although I believe many of them were; these are constitutional issues to be debated by legal scholars and historians and decided by courts. This debate, if done in an intelligent and respectful way, is not only healthy but a necessary part of our country's progress. It also is an old debate, with roots that date back at least to the country's founding: you should read the following wonderful summary of the debate between Hamilton and Jefferson for context (http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:H3z6tTy05bEJ:thomasjeffersonpersonalitycharacterandpubliclife.org/Lauren_Poe_Executive_Power_Past_and_Present_2.pdf+reagan+expansion+executive+power&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=21&gl=us; also, Ellis' great little book, The Founding Fathers). Oldflyer, I didn’t make the case for Democrats being necessarily less interested in centralizing power. In fact, I heed Lord Acton’s warning that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. My response is to Bookworm’s apparent point that all centralizing of power is by definition leftwing based. Maybe that wasn’t her point, but it is an oft-heard criticism of liberals even as conservatives has been as bad. I agree that FDR expanded executive power to unprecedented levels at that time, but the next zeniths occurred under Nixon, Reagan and Bush. There is an interesting article from John Dean, White House counsel under Nixon, to document his actions in this regard(http://hnn.us/articles/printfriendly/1192.html), Reagan’s expansions began almost immediately with his intervention with airline traffic controllers and continued through the administration with the circumvention of a Congressional ban on intervening in Nicaragua (Iran-Contra). Bush’s expansion post 9/11 has made the others look rather wimpish and are so recent and well-reported that I need not repeat them here.

Danny, I wasn’t saying that these actions were extra-constitutional, although I believe many of them were; these are constitutional issues to be debated by legal scholars and historians and decided by courts. This debate, if done in an intelligent and respectful way, is not only healthy but a necessary part of our country’s progress. It also is an old debate, with roots that date back at least to the country’s founding: you should read the following wonderful summary of the debate between Hamilton and Jefferson for context (http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:H3z6tTy05bEJ:thomasjeffersonpersonalitycharacterandpubliclife.org/Lauren_Poe_Executive_Power_Past_and_Present_2.pdf+reagan+expansion+executive+power&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=21&gl=us; also, Ellis’ great little book, The Founding Fathers).

]]> By: Richard Disney http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/13/renaming-the-paradigm/comment-page-1/#comment-23524 Richard Disney Fri, 16 May 2008 00:04:43 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2907#comment-23524 I agree with your overall premise as to why "citified" areas are more Collectivist and more Statist. That is why I am an advocate of State's Rights and choose to live in a less densely populated, less taxed and more free state. I agree with the "why" of your comment as to the mentality that leads to dependence on "mommy government", I just don't agree with the mentality. I agree with your overall premise as to why “citified” areas are more Collectivist and more Statist. That is why I am an advocate of State’s Rights and choose to live in a less densely populated, less taxed and more free state.

I agree with the “why” of your comment as to the mentality that leads to dependence on “mommy government”, I just don’t agree with the mentality.

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