There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
NOAM CHOMSKYTwo days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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