{"id":836,"date":"2010-03-24T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=836"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:41:32","slug":"thinking-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/thinking-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking today &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking today about the next &#8220;big&#8221; piece I want to write (either for this blog or for the print edition of <i>Backwoods Home<\/i>). So I won&#8217;t have too much to say until my brain works that out.<\/p>\n<p>The piece will be based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Jay_Nock\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Jay Nock&#8217;s<\/a> concept of freedom lovers as something like the biblical &#8220;remnant,&#8221; expounded in his essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aapsonline.org\/brochures\/isaiah.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Isaiah&#8217;s Job.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you follow that link, you&#8217;ll see that the copy of &#8220;Isaiah&#8217;s Job&#8221; I chose (there are copies all over the &#8216;Net) is on the site of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aapsonline.org\" target=\"_blank\">Association of American Physicians and Surgeons<\/a> &#8212; a damnfine group.<\/p>\n<p>Nock&#8217;s classic is a good antidote to the &#8220;I&#8217;m losin&#8217; my freedom blues,&#8221; so it seems  appropriate today to find it on a freedom-loving doctors&#8217; website. If things are soon to get terrible for the rest of us, doctors who care about freedom and their patients are going to suffer the most.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, just a few links today, then I&#8217;m off to mull and ponder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A doctor describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/article.php?view=712\" target=\"_blank\">one of the most potentially dire provisions<\/a> of Obamacare &#8212; one that&#8217;s never mentioned in all those mainstream articles on the &#8220;benefits&#8221; of the new insurance regime.\n<li>James Bovard, who just happens to be one of the nicest human beings on the planet, as well as a sharp &#038; witty writer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2010\/0324\/The-2010-Census-Will-your-answers-stay-private\" target=\"_blank\">has a census commentary today<\/a> in the <i>Christian Science Monitor<\/i>. Jim used to be in the mainstream media a lot. But in the last decade or so, many mainstreamers have lacked the guts to publish him. Good to see you in one of the really big ones again, Jim.\n<li>Finally, thank you to G.W.F., who posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/03\/17\/panama\/#comment-523\" target=\"_blank\">this very informative comment about Belize<\/a> (and about guns in Central America) in a thread where I hoped, and still hope, to generate discussion about offshore options. I realize that going offshore isn&#8217;t for most people &#038; I know some consider it merely running away. (I&#8217;m on the fence, myself). But you can bet our physicians, our entrepreneurs, and our upper-middle classes will be headed offshore in record numbers. So this is an important topic to keep on the agenda.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking today about the next &#8220;big&#8221; piece I want to write (either for this blog or for the print edition of Backwoods Home). So I won&#8217;t have too much to say until my brain works that out. The piece will be based on Albert Jay Nock&#8217;s concept of freedom lovers as something like the biblical &#8220;remnant,&#8221; expounded in his essay &#8220;Isaiah&#8217;s Job.&#8221; If you follow that link, you&#8217;ll see that the copy of &#8220;Isaiah&#8217;s Job&#8221; I chose (there are copies all over the &#8216;Net) is on the site of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons &#8212; a damnfine&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/thinking-today\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thinking today &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}