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Glenn "McCarthy" Beck is Hurting America - 0 views

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  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 17 Sep 09
     
    #obamascare #obamafail #glennbeck "glenn beck" #foxnews "fox news" mccarthy "mccarthy era" witchhunt czars presidential #czarsresign #vanjones #tcot #iamthemob #teaparty #liberty #patriot #ttp #tlot
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GOP Healthcare Plan | 4 Planks, 6 Principles - 0 views

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    GOP's "Solutions for America" homepage, which lays out its health-care plan in some detail. It has four planks.
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Corporatism in America: Why Adam Smith would be marching today - 0 views

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  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 04 Oct 11
     
    Today, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is considered a Bible for capitalism, but when published in 1776, it was a blasphemous challenge to the big business, big government mercantilism in Europe. Smith's free market theories expanded economic opportunity, promoted competition and encouraged innovation, in large part, by attacking the "concentrated wealth and power" of Britain's commercial elite.
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US Faces Retro 70s Inflation | CNBC.com - 0 views

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  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 05 Oct 09
     
    "The true inflation rate in America? It's certainly at least 6 or 7 percent, the US government lies about it, as you know, everybody who shops knows that prices are up, everybody except the US government. Rogers repeated his view that the Fed's quantitative easing program is "debasing the currency" and said he was "extremely worried" about the fate of the dollar over the long term. Asia is the region where investors should go, as countries in that region have strong reserves while once-strong economies such as the US and the UK are now in debt, he said.
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Thoreau's Civil Disobedience - 1 - 0 views

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  • He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish;
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      Anne Hulthen on 30 Oct 13
       
      This is kind of like Jimmy Carter, How sometimes the best person doesn't make the best president, because they lack the ability to persuade the caucus or play the politician.
  • All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. 
  • "This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other."(
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  • there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.(15) There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do,
  •  It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that
  • Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may.
  •   All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it.
  • There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves.
  • "I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico; — see if I would go";
  • ow many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one. Does not America offer any inducement for men to settle here? The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow (17) — one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect and cheerful self-reliance; whose first and chief concern,
  • and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute
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The Case Against Kagan | .@MMFA unpacks today's Washington Times compilation of distort... - 0 views

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    The Case Against Kagan | .@MMFA unpacks today's Washington Times compilation of distortions + falsehoods used in a massive attack on Elena Kegan, Supreme Court nominee:
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Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America - 0 views

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  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 14 Aug 09
     
    CEOs and others at the top of the corporate ladder engaging in rampant-though often legal-corruption to improve the bottom line and line their own pockets. They gamble with relative abandon on the chance for that "one big one," that "perfect kill." Unfortunately, they're gambling with your money and mine -- without our knowledge or permission.
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t r u t h o u t | The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama's America: T... - 0 views

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  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 25 Sep 09
     
    Lies and deceit cause the death of democratic politics, critical thought and civic agency. Contempt for 'truth' is evident in the wild West of FOX News. It's evident in Bush's 'Clear Skies Initiative,' enabling greater industrial air pollution. Language is neutered. Meanings are indeterminate. As Orwell said, "war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength."
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