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Multiracial Individuals and Interracial Families
Since it is acknowledged that the "one drop rule" is racist, why are we told to preserve it instead of eliminating it? - A.D. Powell |
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Abolition of Racial Classifications
( 166 items )
While people certainly have and should enjoy the right to call themselves what they want, no agency at any level of government should be in the business of imposing a "racial" or "ethnic" identity upon anyone. - Charles Michael Byrd
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Archaelogy, Anthropology and History
( 27 items )
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell 1984
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Blogging
( 124 items )
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture. - Maureen Corrigan
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Books, Poetry and Short Stories
( 53 items )
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves. – Claude-Adrien Helvetius
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Children and Teens
( 22 items )
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. – Harry Browne
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Civil Liberties and Advocacy Efforts
( 161 items )
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. – Orson Welles
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Civil Liberties: Drug Prohibition
( 22 items )
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging than the drug itself. – Jimmy Carter
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Civil Liberties: National Identification Cards
( 24 items )
Having a national ID would promote a surveillance society that we should all dread. - Jim Harper
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Crime, Law Enforcement and the Judiciary
( 70 items )
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. – James Bovard
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Education
( 44 items )
First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards. – Mark Twain
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Economics and Financial Services
( 86 items )
Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production. – Ayn Rand
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Foreign Policy, Military and War
( 526 items )
Wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them? - The Postman
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Health and Medicine
( 47 items )
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. – P.J. O'Rourke (1993)
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Immigration
( 18 items )
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. – Robert Orben
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Journal
( 40 items )
Sometimes I very much doubt whether in the future anyone will be interested in all my tosh. “The unbosomings of an ugly duckling” will be the title of all this nonsense. - Anne Frank
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Miscellaneous News
( 72 items )
Miscellaneous is always the largest category. - Joel Rosenberg
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Politics
( 221 items )
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. – Gary Lloyd
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Popular Culture
( 80 items )
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. – Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1969
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Race Relations
( 62 items )
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. – F.A. Hayek
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Rape, Sexual Assault and Abuse
( 10 items )
Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding - Kahlil Gibran
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Religion and Spirituality
( 59 items )
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace. – Voltaire
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Space Exploration
( 43 items )
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. - Douglas Adams
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Technological Geekery
( 15 items )
The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use. – Michael Dertouzos
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Terrorism
( 82 items )
Patrick Henry did not say, "Give me absolute safety or give me death." – John Stossel, ABC News journalist
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Website Updates and Repairs
( 80 items )
Please pardon our dust. - anonymous
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