Gordon Howie's blogcrow Brad Ford posts a reasonable essay on the merits of solitary, attention-focusing childhood hobbies. This moment of clarity stands in stark contrast to Ford's foray into civic insanity in defense of anarchy in Kinshasa. Ford drags up…
Posts tagged as “social contract”
SD Supreme Court: No Moral, Legal Right to “Stand Aloof” from Your Community
By caheidelberger on 2012.08.25
While reading Spearfish's 2012 Annexation Study (fuller story coming up Sunday morning!), I came upon an interesting passage from Smith vs. City of Rapid City, a 1981 case that went to the South Dakota Supreme Court. The passage below appears…
Romney, GOP Assail Obama for Telling Truth about Social Contract
By caheidelberger on 2012.07.18
Some of my conservative neighbors are having fun exploding President Barack Obama's statement of an obvious political truth into a declaration of war on God and fealty to the total state. The President spoke in Roanoke last Friday. He made…
Elizabeth Warren Explains the Social Contract, Shows Dems How to Win 2012
By caheidelberger on 2011.09.22
Leo finds Jon Stewart helping out the policy debaters; I find a great assistant coach for Lincoln-Douglas... and the Democrat I've been looking for. Via Nathan Johnson and my wife's recommendation, here is Elizabeth Warren's one-minute primer on the social…