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For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

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The Wrong Track
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Of Wolves and Politicians
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Initiative Surplus?
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The Year You Made Us More Free
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Reactionary America
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Abolish. Or Set in Stone
November 13, 2024
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Destroying Dane Farming
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Disaster Relief Pass-Over
November 11, 2024
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Exemplary Rejections
November 8, 2024
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Not Now
November 7, 2024
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People With Influence?
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The Incumbency vs. Progressives
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The Limits of Corruption
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Unexpected Analogy
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Veteran Politicians vs. Veterans
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A Deplorable Christmas
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Pulling It Off
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Toxic Smile?
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They Aren’t Lying Now?
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Skepticism in Order
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On this day in 1833, Denison Olmsted was alerted by his neighbors to something truly amazing, a night sky filled with shooting stars.

Not just a one or two or a dozen or a hundred: 72,000 or more per hour. Though recognizing where among the constellations meteors came from was ancient knowledge, it had not been recorded by modern-era scientists, at least in this case. What Olmsted noticed was that the meteors were coming from one point in the sky, the constellation Leo. This regular meteor event is now called the Leonid meteor stream.

In the morning, Olmsted wrote a brief report on the meteor storm for the New Haven Daily Herald newspaper, which elicited correspondence from around the country, thus beginning a social storm, in a sense: crowd-sourced science.

Robert A. Heinlein on Political Labels
“Political tags such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, …
There must be…
There must be a less excruciating way to find the least …
The Socialist Pledge
What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine… is mine.
Stop Phony Crony Pay Grab
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Free Trade, Tolerance and Cooperation…
Free trade, tolerance and cooperation will lead inevitably to peace and …