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Townhall: A Tree Fell on Campaign Trail 2015

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Post date August 16, 2015
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Will anyone notice the huge event that marked the Bernie Sanders’s campaign? Will it matter to those on the left, who seem most enamored of the man? Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for a bit more background.

First, read this story in The Seattle Times: “Black Lives Matter Activists protesters shut down Bernie Sanders; later rally draws 15,000.”

When I wrote about this last week, I linked to a video . . . that has been since taken down. But you can watch more than enough on this interesting video by young African-American YouTuber:

Donald Trump’s reaction:

https://youtu.be/2UhUio29PP4

And finally, a strange moment in Secretary of State John Kerry’s public history:

This column will be archived on this site on Tuesday.

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Voltaire

“It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

Voltaire, Zadig (1747)

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Video: A Short History of Government “Welfare”

Post author By Redactor
Post date August 15, 2015
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Economic historian Robert Higgs, author of the important book Crisis and Leviathan, and formulator of the important concept “regime uncertainty,” offers a sweeping (if brief) overview of government handouts as the background for our American experience.

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William Graham Sumner

“The history of civil liberty is made up of campaigns against abuses of taxation. Protectionism is the great modern abuse of taxation; the abuse of taxation which is adapted to a republican form of government. Protectionism is now corrupting our political institutions just as slavery used to do.”

William Graham Sumner, “Protectionism: the -ism which teaches that waste makes wealth” (1888)

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Voltaire

“Clever tyrants are never punished.”

Voltaire, Mérope, act V, scene V (1743)

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William Graham Sumner

“Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.”

William Graham Sumner, “The Forgotten Man” (1883)

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Voltaire

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”

Voltaire, “Sixième discours: sur la nature de l’homme,” Sept Discours en Vers sur l’Homme (1738)

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William Graham Sumner

“If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.”

William Graham Sumner, “The Forgotten Man” (1883)

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Voltaire

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

Voltaire, Brutus, Act II, scene I (1730).

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Townhall: The (Un)Intended Consequences of Campaign Finance Regs

Post author By Redactor
Post date August 9, 2015
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Something happened in Grand Rapids. There was a political campaign, complete with contribution reports; a complaint was filed; a determination was made and fines were even imposed — which have been called “kind of steep.” But what comes shining through is not the hooray-for-us message, “the system works.” Far from it. Read about it on Townhall. Come back here for more information:

MLive: “Fine ‘kind of steep,’ says Grand Rapids campaign finance treasurer who made error”
Complaint: Tillman v. Protect Your Vote GR
Complaint: Tillman v. Grand rapids Area Chamber of Commerce Ballot Committee
MLive: “Alleged breach of election law called ‘serious violation of the public trust”
MLive: “Campaign finance complaints: Michigan investigates Grand Rapids term limits election”
MLive: “Term limits pass in Grand Rapids: Mayor, 4 commissioners suddenly lame ducks”
MLiv” “2 women bankrolling Grand Rapids term-limits campaign”
MLive: “Term limits in Grand Rapids: Chamber, union group oppose”
Protect Your Vote GR
Common Sense: “Grand Rapids Grand Alliance”
Liberty Initiative Fund: “Grand Rapids Battle Over term Limits”