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Frédéric Bastiat

By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.
Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Harmonies (1850).

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

Term Limits for the Memories
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Who’s the Boss?
This week, Republicans have chosen Donald Trump to be their …
The Article V Path
Can Americans term-limit Congress? Twenty-three states had passed term limits on …
We already have term limits, you moron…
Uhmmm,Yeah. So…how’s that Been working out for you? (Public Approval Rating …
Reader’s Remorse
You know what buyer’s remorse is, right? The New York …

Thought of the Day

Men are the dominant sign-using animals. Animals other than man do, of course, respond to certain things as signs of something else, but such signs do not attain the complexity and elaboration which is found in human speech, writing, art, testing devices, medical diagnosis, and signaling instruments. Science and signs are inseparably interconnected, since science both presents men with more reliable signs and embodies its results in systems of signs. Human civilization is dependent upon signs and systems of signs, and the human mind is inseparable from the functioning of signs — if indeed mentality is not to be identified with such functioning.
Charles W. Morris, “Foundations of the Theory of Signs,” in International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Vol. 1, No. 2; Reprinted 1971.

— Charles W. Morris

Memes (refresh for more)

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Dear Bernie: Here’s How Rights Work…
A new “right” that violates other fundamental rights, can’t be …
Two Headed Beast
More War, More Cronyism, More Corporate Give-Aways, More CrowdedPrisons, More …
Maybe they don’t know what they believe…
In one breath, they mock anyone who thinks that Bernie …
10 Out of 10
10 out of 10 terrorist Jihadists agree… American gun rights must be restricted! …

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