Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Last week, the news of the dire wolf’s de-extinction was everywhere. It didn’t take long until calmer voices pointed out that these are not really dire wolves, which weren’t even wolves, just gray wolves genetically altered to have what someone believes were some dire wolf traits. The kind of liberty most people offer is similar. It’s not real liberty; it’s authoritarianism with a few tweaks of what some politicians believe real liberty might be like. They’ll claim to support liberty to get votes — until it threatens government power. This isn’t liberty at all, but a watered-down version where government allows you to do some things you already have a right to do, as long as you don’t bother government too much.” (04/16/25)