Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. - Khalil Gibran |
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Abolition of Racial Classifications
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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
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell 1984
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Blogging
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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
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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
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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
( 170 items )
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. – Orson Welles
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Civil Liberties: Drug Prohibition
( 32 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
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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
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America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. – James Bovard
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Education
( 47 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
( 260 items )
Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production. – Ayn Rand
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Foreign Policy, Military and War
( 701 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
( 65 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
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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. – Robert Orben
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Journal
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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
( 45 items )
Miscellaneous is always the largest category. - Joel Rosenberg
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Multiracial Individuals and Interracial Families
( 220 items )
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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Politics
( 287 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
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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
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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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Religion and Spirituality
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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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Science and Technology
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The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use. – Michael Dertouzos
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Space Exploration
( 47 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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Terrorism
( 103 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
( 81 items )
Please pardon our dust. - anonymous
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