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• Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
• Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained,…
• The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.
• 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on…
• Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive…
• Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
• Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
• It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
• A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are…
• Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
• My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general…
• Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a…

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