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“Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world’s problems will be solved.”

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The Citizen’s Stop Sign
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Why Congress Can’t Read
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Watch Out!
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The Hill as Hallucinogen
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Elon & Vivek to Cut Government?
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The Demand for Term Limits
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Power Abuse
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Security Deposit for Term Limits?
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A Trout in the Milk
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Bernie and Economic Law
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Congress Considers the Draft
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Christmas Is Coming
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Smash the Duopoly
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Seriously Not Serious
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On November 23, 1644, British poet John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).

The name “Areopagitica” references a speech by Isocrates, the “Areopagitikós” that itself referenced a hill in Athens, Greece, the Areopagus, which had been the site of an important tribunal that the Greek orator had hoped to restore. It may also refer to the defense that St. Paul made before the Areopagus against charges of promulgating alien gods and outré teachings (see Acts 17:18 – 34).