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Abigail Adams

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“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.”

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Shanghaied in Tallahassee
How to prevent citizen control of government? The democracy-loathing Chinese Communist …
Running the Asylum
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Wisconsin’s Kumbaya Moment
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Exploring Recall in Wisconsin
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A Clever Change
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Measures for Measures
November 23, 2024
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Denial Is a River in Argentina?
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Watch Out!
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The Hill as Hallucinogen
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Elon & Vivek to Cut Government?
November 18, 2024
Paul Jacob on who could help whom do what is …Read More »

Wow, This Job Is Tough
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What Was I Thinking?
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A New Tammany?
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Graceless Memphis Politicians
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Trying Our Souls
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No-Study Politics
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Packing
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The Ominous Linkages
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Il Duce Cuomo
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Daughter Draft
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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).

Hillary’s Accomplishments
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Maybe they don’t know what they believe…
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Mega-state vs. Corporate Power
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1 Statement… 5 Witless Assumptions
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Twain on Congress and Liberty