In the Vein of Tolerance

http://thefederalist.com/2017/03/27/political-islam-todays-anti-american-long-march-institutions/

I wish we could get out of our sound bite, 140-character world and realize what is at stake.  Here are three quotes from the article if you don’t have time or interest to read the whole thing:

“My central argument is that political Islam implies a constitutional order fundamentally incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and with the ‘constitution of liberty’ that is the foundation of the American way of life.”

“Yet the advance of political Islam manifests itself not only in acts of violence. Even as billions are spent on military intervention and drone strikes, the ideological infrastructure of political Islam in the United States continues to grow because officials are concerned only with criminal conspiracies to commit acts of violence, not with the ideology that inspires such acts.”

“We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”

https://mises.org/blog/why-angela-merkel-hates-tax-competition

More states means more competition - for people, enterprise AND tax policy.  Increased competition is always and everywhere good for the individual.  Brexit is good for competition, as would be the break up the EU, the US, China, Russia, etc into more smaller nations.  Things that make you go, “Hmmm.”