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Charles Bukowski

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969).

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

Fear and Freedom
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Politicians Not Voters
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The One-Man Petition Drive
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Thought of the Day

I wish for my own part there were no such thing as Political-Economy. I mean not now the mere name of the study: but I wish there had never been any necessity for directing our attention to the study itself. If men had always been secured in person and property, and left at full liberty to employ both as they saw fit; and had merely been precluded from unjust interference with each other — had the most perfect freedom of intercourse between all mankind been always allowed — had there never been any wars — nor (which in that case would have easily been avoided) any taxation — then, though every exchange that took place would have been one of the phenomena of which Political-Economy takes cognizance, all would have proceeded so smoothly, that probably no attention would ever have been called to the subject. The transactions of society would have been like the play of the lungs, the contractions of the muscles, and the circulation of the blood, in a healthy person; who scarcely knows that these functions exist. But as soon as they are impeded and disordered, our attention is immediately called to them.
Richard Whately, Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1832), Lecture III.

— Richard Whately

Memes (refresh for more)

A simple question…
Government is a dangerous servant… as the American left has recently discovered. …
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On Labor Day…
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1 Statement… 5 Witless Assumptions
Bernie manages to pack quite a lot into one statement… Click below …

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