Horror of horrors! It turns out that Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning son of the equally libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) really does believe in…LIBERTY.
Wednesday night, just 24 hours after he handily defeated the establishment Republican candidate in Kentucky’s U. S. Senate primary, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC confronted Paul with something he said last month in an interview with the editorial board of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The editors were interested in finding out how far his libertarianism went, so they asked him if he would have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which, among other things, outlawed racial discrimination in public accommodations — i.e., restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, etc. To which he replied: “In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people who have abhorrent behavior.” Read more »
I’m breaking a promise I made.
In an email to Walt Thiessen, the owner and webmaster of Nolan Chart, I said I would not contribute any more articles to this site as long as Billy Roper is in any way associated with it. Yet, here I am doing just that, and, moreover, doing it on a gorgeous Spring day on which I had planned to be outside planting my flower beds.
However, Walt left me little choice when he decided to respond publicly to my private communication. My intent was to give him a heads-up, to warn him that a neo-nazi is using his website to promote an ideology that he no doubt despises — and doing it under a “libertarian” label, no less. Rather than responding in an email, he chose to do so in the form of an article that was put out on Nolan Chart for all the world to see.
I did not give Walt “permission to repeat all this”, as he says. I told him he could do whatever he wanted with the information, not with the email. If my intention had been to express these views publicly, I would have done so in an article, and would have expressed them differently. Read more »
