Link: TCS: Tech Central Station - Cuckolded by the Conservative State.
This is why libertarians are worried about the Republican Party having a "conservative crack-up." Not because it's in any immediate danger of falling apart at the polls. But because it's in danger of no longer being conservative.
None of this is news to me. It's almost as though the Republicans have forgotten they are were in favor of smaller government. The Bush administration has made increasing inroads to running your life. The extreme ends of the political spectrum have been Socialist and Facsist. Sometimes the left has been called Liberal and the right Conservative when they are short of these extremes. But I think the Repbulican party is starting to drift to the far right. Whenever idividual liberty is subordinated to the state you've got tyranny regardless of the intent.
Via Indepundit
More from Coyote Blog.
When Republicans were out of power, they could be trusted to support non-activist judges against liberal activist alternatives. Now, however, my fear is that Republicans may have shifted their stand, seeking to nominate activist conservative judges. Leaving no one at all in Washington to support a constitutional separation of powers.
It's not really surprising that Republicans have started believing in big government since getting the White House back but Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave.
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