@killerrabbit @semiticgod As far as I can tell, what Hillary did was a lot of little misdeeds, none of which amount to "rigging the election", though they may be significant in the aggregat… (View Post)

You are coming entirely from a legal positivist viewpoint. I do not. Statutory rights are privileges, as well as rights in the legal sense. Also, no, felons not being able to vote has most certainly … (View Post)

On voter ID: While I think some calls for voter IDs on the right are self-serving, I also think every single call for ID-less voting from the left is entirely self-serving. There is no legitimate rea… (View Post)

@Ayiekie Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institutution (by far the best left-wing think tank) makes this point quite effectively in an article he wrote about political realism. He notes the need for … (View Post)

Personally, I think voting is a very serious activity. People treat it as simply an exercise in a freedom, but I think John Stuart Mill correctly defined it as the exercise of power over others. That… (View Post)