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Affirmative Action of the Best Kind
Alarmist Politics
Bureaucracy
Crime & Punishment
The U.S. is not a Democracy?
Global Warming
Multiculturalism
Political Correctness
Troubled Times, Living in



Affirmative Action of the Best Kind

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)

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Alarmist Politics

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

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Bureaucracy

At the beginning of this article I mentioned some of the pivotal technologies that the Chinese had invented, sometimes centuries before they appeared elsewhere. Another hundred inventions, all profoundly contributive to the progress of humanity, could have been mentioned. What caused this brilliant creativity and innovation to dim around the 12th century and not brighten again? Most Sinologists ascribe this cessation to the oppressive burden of an ever-burgeoning Chinese bureaucracy that finally permeated the smallest details of the citizenry's daily existence and crushed the ingenious spirit of the entire society.

The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, 9/29/88, P. 20

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Crime & Punishment

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 (NIV)

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The U.S. Is Not A Democracy?

Q. If we are not a democracy, why are our officials elected by a majority of the people, and why are our laws passed by a majority of the lawmakers?

A. We are not a democracy because both the people and the lawmakers are limited by the fundamental law of the land, our written Constitution. Election by the people is not a grant of power beyond the constitutional limits of the office. A representative government limited by law is a republic, not a democracy. In a republic a majority of the people cannot vote away their own rights, or the rights of others unless ... unless they step outside the Constitution.

Preserve The Constitution, By Don Fotheringham (October, 1995)

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Global Warming

"...it is imperative that we determine what the rising carbon dioxide content of earth's atmosphere portends for the planet's food supply system, lest in our ignorance of the facts we rush head-long into enacting carbon dioxide emission controls that may be tantamount to biting the hand that feeds us. An amazing array of scientific evidence suggests that a world wide greening of the planet is currently underway. The carbon dioxide induced magnification of plant productivity that drives this biological revolution should continue to increase the amount of food available for the planet's animal life, as well as enhance the size and quality of animal habitat, thereby helping to preserve biodiversity. At a time when many groups and individuals have glibly announced that the earth has reached or even exceeded its biological carrying capacity, the planet itself has provided powerful evidence to prove them wrong. This message must not go unheeded; for the atmosphere's rising carbon dioxide content is rejuvenating the globe by breathing new life into the entire biosphere. All species on earth should thereby benefit together."

Dr. Keith Idso, in World Climate Review (Spring 1995)

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Multiculturalism

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

Theodore Roosevelt (1915)

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Political Correctness

I used to think I was poor.
Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy.
Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy.
I was deprived.
(Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged)
Then they told me that underprivileged was overused.
I was disadvantaged.
I still don't have a dime.
But I have a great vocabulary.

Jules Feiffer (1965)

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Living in Troubled Times

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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