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I have been reading On Liberty by John Stuart Mill over the past few months and have discovered that the man is infinitely quotable. He was an Englishman who wrote during the 1850s as if he were living today. I think that this quote exemplifies what is going on in many modern governments today: Mankind [...]
The Obama administration has just announced an investigation in to CIA interrogations that may have violated the law. The president said repeatedly during his first month in office that he wanted to look forward not backward and all but ruled-out investigations of the type now under way. The administration is now content with CIA officials [...]
This YouTube Video includes the audio from an LP released by the American Medical Association in 1961 to help put down a move toward socialized medicine. Back in 1927, an American Socialist, Norman Thomas, 6-time candidate for President on the Socialist Party Ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism. But, he [...]
From: WSJ Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t. Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in [...]
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/07/eff-defends-wikipedi Legal Analysis by Fred von Lohmann As has been widely reported, the National Portrait Gallery of London (NPG) recently sent a legal threat to an American Wikipedian, Derrick Coetzee, over his posting approximately 3,000 photos of public domain paintings to Wikipedia. Because of the importance of this issue for the public domain and the [...]
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good [...]