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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and…
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Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and…
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Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right…
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Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning…
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Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny…
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Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say…
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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that…
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MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors,…
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