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I spend plenty of time making fun of liberals here. But I'll be the first to concede that liberals have no monopoly on idiocy. As proof that I'm an equal-opportunity anti-idiotarian, here's a moronic line from a piece by conservative Paul Craig Roberts:

Most of the original rights on which our country was founded are long gone. Their place has been taken by the right to murder both the unborn and those being born, the right of the majority to make tax slaves out of the productive minority and force them to serve a redistributionist state, and the right of "victim groups" to exercise legal privileges based on group status � a medieval privilege.

MOST of our original rights ARE LONG GONE?! I'm a vocal critic of the welfare state, and I've been known to argue that the American constitutional tradition has been derailed (to borrow a line from Willmoore Kendall and George Carey), but Roberts goes too far. It's a shame, because he's pretty solid in his area of expertise (economics). It's also a shame because he makes some good points in his piece before his rhetorical excess at the end totally obscures them.

[Posted at 23:06 CST on 02/09/02] [Link]