Philanthropy

Do you give of your own income? How much? If you don't where do you expect the funds for caring for those you are concerned about to come from?
To whatever extent we expect the government to care for charities in our name we give up that liberty to the government. Increase of liberty requires the assumption of personal responsibility not only for one's self but also for those around us.
Nathan

Daniel Underwood

Anybody catch Daniel's column last Friday in the technician? I ran into Daniel the other day, and we shared emails. I sent him the following plug and clarification of the whole liberal conservative labelling issue. It runs as follows and provides some insight into my screen name and blog title.

I've got a book (short, 130 pgs. written at a 6th grade reading level) for you called "Are You Liberal, Conservative, or Confused?" by Richard Maybury. www.bluestockingpress.com, but I'll lend you mine, if you like.
A few selections in response to Friday's column:

Liberals believe you should have privacy in your social conduct, but not in your economic conduct. Conservatives grant privacy in your economic conduct but not in your social conduct. Thr right wants to use force to stamp out immorality. The left wants to use it to stamp out inequality of wealth. A Moderate compromises. Borrowing from both left and right, he wishes to control both your economic conduct and your social conduct. Moderates will allow you more economic freedom than liberals and more social freedom than conservatives but they want to keep a close eye on both areas. They don't like privacy. Both Republicans and Democrats are closer to Moderates than either extreme Liberals (socialists), or extreme Conservatives (fascists). This is where they perceive the bulk of the votes to be. The other Middle View is Juris Naturalism. Juris Naturalists are the opposite of Moderates, they combine the left's desire for liberty in social affairs and the right's desire for liberty in economic affairs. Juris naturalism never is found on the Left to Right spectrum of political ideals. This is because the spectrum contains no place for it. From far left to far right its all statist. Juris naturalists are terrified of political power, and consider it the most evil drug ever discovered.
Nathan

ISI?

Are there any other ISI members among you?
Nathan

Morality of Capitalism

I have invited some folks to dicuss the morality of Capitalism, economics, and varying political and market structures over the next week or so. Please visit and comment.

Question of the Day

How can you define taxation in a way which makes it different from robbery?

SPEL Promotion

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to say that we as SPEL members should each be more proactive to get people involved. One thing I was thinking about was AIM. That is a huge untapped resource. I know there are those "Away Message Vultures" (people that chronically read away messages) so we should hit them with SPEL Meetings and times. I think we should each put information about SPEL meetings in our away messages and profiles. If everyone in the club did that imagine how many people would see.

Another idea I had was to post the meetings on Facebook groups. We should be diligent about this for EVERY meeting. A few groups that come to mind are College of Management Majors, Campus Crusade, Proud to be Christians, Palestine, Family Guy, College Republicans etc etc (I am not endorsing these groups but DAD BURNIT they have over 3000 members sometimes!)

Welp have a good week!

What fun...

Look how much fun it is to post on the SPEL blog. Wheeeeeee!!!!