Category Archives: Political Freedoms

Called out

Posted on 3 October 2008 by dlhitzeman

Apparently, my 28 September and 2 October articles admitting that Obama is winning right now and expressing my disappointment with the vice presidential debate touched a nerve with at least some of my readers. One commenter asked whether I changed my mind about my support for McCain.

The answer is unequivocally no. I support John McCain as much as I did on 26 January 2008 when I first concluded he was the only candidate suitable for me to vote for as president based on my standard of national security. That conclusion holds true as much now as it did then: I support John McCain for President of the United States.

The question really is, do you? […] Continue reading →

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Now it’s time to fight

Posted on 5 September 2008 by dlhitzeman

[…] This campaign, perhaps more than any in decades, represents a fight for the future of the United States and libertarian republican democracy around the world. In the choice between McCain and Obama, we have the distinction between someone who believes in America and everything it stands for and someone who believes that American is fundamentally flawed and can only be fixed by the benevolence of government. […] Continue reading →

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Complicated questions

Posted on 5 August 2008 by dlhitzeman

The worker’s union at the Tyson Foods plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee recently convinced the management at that plant to trade the paid holiday of Labor Day for the paid holiday of Eid al-Fitr. […] Continue reading →

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Counting every vote

Posted on 1 August 2008 by dlhitzeman

One of the fundamentals of democracy is counting every eligible vote.

Unless that vote is one of 400,000 military absentee ballots estimated not to have been counted across the country during the 2006 general election. I try to avoid conspiracy theories, but I have to wonder what 400,000 votes would have done to a variety of races in 2006. […] Continue reading →

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Laws of surveillance

Posted on 3 April 2008 by dlhitzeman

The United States of America faces a difficult and ongoing issue that was brought into dramatic focus on 11 September 2001: agents of foreign enemies are operating on American soil with the intention of killing American citizens, and in great part, the government does not know who they are. […] Continue reading →

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