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To: koan who wrote (764542)	1/18/2014 3:45:32 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574181

Dirtbags appropriated a once honorable term Dan Klein on the Origins and Meaning of the Word “Liberal” by Don Boudreaux on January 17, 2014 in Adam Smith, History Among the windmills at which I tilt is the misuse, in the English-speaking world, of the word “liberal.” I refuse to concede that honorable term to those who champion the initiation of physical force (or its threat) as an acceptable means of governing or changing society. I’m content to call such people “Progressives” (always with quotation marks, because there’s almost nothing progressive about “Progressivism”) but, perhaps inconsistently, I have never been able to bring myself to call such people or their means “liberal,” or to call their cause “liberalism.” I have always regarded myself as a liberal. And I still do. “Illiberals” or “statists” are more appropriate descriptors of “Progressives.” (I have a slight preference for the term “statists.”) In this speech last week in Stockholm, my GMU Econ colleague Dan Klein explores the origins, meanings, and history of the use of the term “liberal.”

To: koan who wrote (764542)	1/18/2014 5:51:44 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1574181

Rand Paul (accurately) notes that Jim Crow was a majoritarian policy, too.: I am probably quite a bit too neoc 8 moelane

To: koan who wrote (764542)	1/23/2014 4:39:31 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1574181

Koan, What evidence do you have to back that up? It's a theory I have that explains why so many scientists identify themselves as liberal. It's just as valid as your insinuation that liberalism is the "right way to go" because so many scientists identify themselves as such. Scientist's shun the Republican party, because the party shuns science e.g. evolution and global warming. Republicans understand the difference between real science and the kind of politicized "science" that big government liberals push. Tenchusatsu