February 2010
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January 2010
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Washington Memo - Supreme Court Gets a Rare... →
“The court’s legitimacy is derived from the persuasiveness of its opinions and the expectation that those opinions are rendered free of partisan, political influences,” Mr. Verniero said. “The more that individual justices are drawn into public debates, the more the court as an institution will be seen in political terms, which was not the intent of the founders.”
Apparently anytime the Supreme...
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Class War - Reason Magazine →
“People who are supposed to serve the public have become a privileged elite that exploits political power for financial gain and special perks. Because of its political power, this interest group has rigged the game so there are few meaningful checks on its demands. Government employees now receive far higher pay, benefits, and pensions than the vast majority of Americans working in the...
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“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn...”
– Bucky Fuller
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WatchAnne talking about stuff. January 2010 (via Vimeo)
Click through to Vimeo to see it in Hi-res.
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Official Google Blog: A new approach to China →
Google stops censoring Chinese searches, and will possibly pull their entire business out of China due to Chinese government’s illegal hacking activities.
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Gun control quotes
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
-Mohandas Gandhi
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
-Mao
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of...
