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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws a...more

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Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radi...more

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When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed t...more

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Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be st...more

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If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional he...more

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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

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International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his p...more

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You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant l...more

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If you’ve ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. I don’t have to...more