http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/i-had-no-idea-how-right-i-was/#disqus_thread
read the comments by “ridin’ dirty” and marvel at the surreal cognitive dissonance on display.
his persistance and neocon self-righteousness makes me desperately want to mount a refutation of his most recent posts since they smack of severe absurdity.
Why bother? All he did was bring up almost everything Tom already addressed as if he were bringing some novel new angle to the debate no one had thought of. Just appreciate the sound of his name and move on.
Mark Levin’s schtick is the ad hominem.
We’re just witnessing the difference between a debater (Woods) and an entertainer (Levin). People are easily entertained, but struggle when forced to deal with hard facts. And they get totally befuddled with hard facts from over 200 years ago.
Based on Levin’s poor showing, I have to wonder what the success rate is over at the Landmark Legal Foundation.
A more interesting debate would be Woods supporting the Pro-Constitutionalists from the original intent of the founders versus one of the other brilliant scholars supporting the Anarcho-Capitalist position. But then I bet that Woods could provide arguments for both sides, and do much better than Levin did for his position.
Levin holds a strong central government position on crime, defense, and other functions he feels are represented in the Constitution (notice I said “feels” as opposed to “proves”). The anarchist positions (and there are many) directly counter the comfort of his minarchist position (although I doubt criminals and alleged traitors would view Levin’s style of government minarchist). This is why it’s rather odd that Levin uses the term Statist so loosely.
Other than alliteration, “Kooky Cabal” is about as nonsensical of a description that you can get for Lew Rockwell’s site. The libertarian positions (and there are many) do not make a cabal. They are quite open and available to any who seek them out - some more available than you’d like them to be. Kooky is subjective, but I’d argue the level of reasoning required among fellow libertarians is much higher than any of the main stream political or economic positions. Unless by “kookiness” Levin means the site is willing to let different opinions remain uncensored and either stand or fall on their own merit rather than a few keystrokes of a site administrator. Since Lew Rockwell’s site is not a cabal, the kookiness becomes irrelevant.