“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”
—Walter Bagehot
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Walter Bagehot
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Alexander Cockburn, First Rule of Journalism
“The First Rule of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”
—Alexander Cockburn
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The day the U.S. military draft ended:
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The Solution is Simple. . .
Elections matter, after all. In fact, these days they matter too much. In the wake of the 2008 election, writer Jerry Pournelle observed: “We have always known that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. It’s worse now, because capture of government is so much more important than it once was. There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time — not during most of your lifetimes, and for much of mine — and it will probably never be true again.”
–Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today
Reduce the power of government.
Then it won’t matter which gang of crooks in charge.
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Salman Rushdie on Free Speech
“The moment you limit free speech, it’s not free speech.”
—Salman Rushdie
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Tom Paine and “The Crisis”
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