{"id":4480,"date":"2011-03-01T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2011-03-01T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:18:19","slug":"bovard-on-sunstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/bovard-on-sunstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Bovard on Sunstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cass Sunstein, Obama admin regulatory czar and longtime Obama advisor, is one of the scariest men alive &#8212; and not least because he has the Orwellian gall to claim that his brand of uber-statism is actually &#8230; gak! &#8230; <i>libertarian<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/obama-advisor-sunsteins-peril-to-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard kicks Sunstein&#8217;s backside.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sunsteinian doctrine in a nutshell: All rights come from government, and your right to free speech or self-defense is no more fundamental than some other guy&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221; to a cushy job, a comfy house, guaranteed medical care, etc. On the contrary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass Sunstein, Obama admin regulatory czar and longtime Obama advisor, is one of the scariest men alive &#8212; and not least because he has the Orwellian gall to claim that his brand of uber-statism is actually &#8230; gak! &#8230; libertarian. Jim Bovard kicks Sunstein&#8217;s backside. The Sunsteinian doctrine in a nutshell: All rights come from government, and your right to free speech or self-defense is no more fundamental than some other guy&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221; to a cushy job, a comfy house, guaranteed medical care, etc. On the contrary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}