WAPO: Robert Nozick is the Only Acceptable Definer of Human Rights

Shorter Fred Hiatt: FDR was a total commie; King and his so-called "civil rights" maybe even worse. They probably didn't even understand that "human rights" should be defined exclusively in the terms that will maximize the imperialist power of the United States. Let's also completely ignore the fact that, in practice, the protection of even "negative" rights requires the substantial expenditure of state resources, making them no more "natural" by our logic by any other.

...Matt has more about the editorial that "really breaks new ground in terms of red baiting and absurdity."

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Shorter Bobo

What I...er, I mean, "(white male) independents in the suburbs (the only constituency in America whose views should matter)" want is for the government to acknowledge that Herbert Hoover's response to economic disaster was a little too activist and act accordingly.

...and at least one "Democratic" Senator agrees!

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