{"id":379108,"date":"2018-09-30T04:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-great-thomas-hill-show\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T04:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T03:27:12","slug":"the-great-thomas-hill-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-great-thomas-hill-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Thomas &#038; Hill Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Let it be said: I was never a Thomas enthusiast.\u00a0 I am no fan of affirmative action in any sense.\u00a0 I do not believe in ethnic or racial seats on the Supreme Court, and I can only scoff at the patent Bushian lie that race played no role in Clarence Thomas\u2019 selection, or that he was the best qualified person in the nation for the job.\u00a0 Neither am I impressed with the depth of Thomas\u201d juristic insight or with the consistency of whatever of his principles have not been shredded during the confirmation \u201cprocess.\u201d Even at best, Thomas was never any sort of Libertarian or Randian; at most, Thomas was a Jaffaite, his \u201ccontrol\u201d and theoretician being a Japanese-American Jaffaite aide.\u00a0 To the uninitiated in the mysteries of modern conservatism, Harry Jaffa is the leader of the Western Straussians \u2013 in contrast to the Eastern Straussians \u2013 both groups ardent and abject disciples of the late Professor Leo Strauss.\u00a0 The Straussians (who include \u201cprince\u201d William Kristol, son of Irving, chief aide and \u201ctheoretician\u201d to our beloved Vice President, Dan Quayle) provide whatever intellectual patina the neoconservatives may possess.\u00a0 In contrast to Eastern Straussians (e.g.\u00a0 Allan Bloom, Walter Berns), the Jaffaites believe in natural rights.\u00a0 That\u2019s the good news.\u00a0 The bad news is that prominent among these alleged rights is \u201cequality,\u201d egalitarianism, a concept illegitimately grafted onto the Jeffersonian doctrine of natural rights of person and property.\u00a0 To Professor Jaffa, Abraham Lincoln and \u201cDr.\u201d Martin Luther King constitute the modern incarnation and fulfillment of Lockean natural rights.\u00a0 In short, \u201ccivil rights\u201d are encouraged to ride roughshod over property rights.\u00a0 Whatever this is, it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/09\/murray-n-rothbard\/the-great-thomas-hill-show-stopping-the-monstrous-regiment\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it be said: I was never a Thomas enthusiast.\u00a0 I am no fan of affirmative action in any sense.\u00a0 I do not believe in ethnic or racial seats on the Supreme Court, and I can only scoff at the patent Bushian lie that race played no role in Clarence Thomas\u2019 selection, or that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}