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- What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting…
- Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
- In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the…
- Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay…
- To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United…
- There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
- Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes…
- You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them,…
- The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.…
- Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower…
- Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
- The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
- Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if…
- Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put…
- What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution…
- Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
- Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options
- Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange