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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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