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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Noam Chomsky

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Cold Done Mean Weather Work
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Action Arise Choice Decision Human Loss Question Reason Science Soon
That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Citizen Do Government Law Secret State Suppose
There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Gap Opinion Policy Public Tremendous
No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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Appy Basic Engineer Learn Little Mathematics Matter Same Science
That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Anger Country Dislike Dissatisfaction Hatred Poil Repeat
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Citizen Enemy Government Man Own Protect Regard Themselves
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Aggressive Country Least Major Military Power Threat
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Country Economic Enormous Growth Highest History Period

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