Tag: Tyranny
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The Two “Reigns of Terror” by Mark Twain
Everyone loves a good Mark Twain quotes. Here’s one of my favorites: The passage in question is from the thirteenth chapter of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” It points out that there were two “Reigns of Terror” in France; that the evils of the “minor Terror,” that of the Revolution, have been made…
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Jefferson on Refreshing the Tree of Liberty
From Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 13 November 1787 (Paris): …can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always,…
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The Christian Communist Manifesto
Hi, In the past, I’ve argued in that Karl Marx unfairly gets a bad reputation for simply writing down what most people already knew. Marx’s ideas on wage slavery, capital, exploitation, and private property were nothing new and are, in fact, centuries old. It’s time to read the writings of the True Levellers (a.k.a. Diggers)…
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Justice Scalia on the Historical Reasons for an Armed Militia
On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed by a vote of 5 to 4 the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Heller v. District of Columbia. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second…
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Walter Lippmann – Father of Modern Journalism
Hi, I decided to find the original sources for many of Chomsky’s quotes from Lippmann’s works. Turns out Chomsky was right. Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term “stereotype”…
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Gun Control: Three Unorthodox Arguments in Support of a Better World
It’s time to throw my hat into the gun-control debate. Truthfully, I’m not keen on the arguments from either side of the debate. The pro-gun reform advocates have some very good and logical points; however, they usually land on deaf ears or are defeated by the experience of the opposing camp. I’d like to present…