U.S. deserves a “D” in the “Battle of Ideas”- Rumsfeld

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 3/30/2006 @ 6:32 pm

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“We have not found the formula as a country” to counter the message of the extremists in the Muslim world. “The strategy must do a great deal more to reduce the lure of the extremist ideology by standing with those moderate Muslims advocating peaceful change, freedom and tolerance.”

The enemy we face may be the most brutal in our history. They currently lack only the means — not the desire — to kill, murder millions of innocent people with weapons vastly more powerful than boarding passes and box cutters.” -  Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld

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Bernard Siegan – Propery Rights Advocate Dies at 82

Filed under:Bill of Rights,General — posted by 3wire on @ 6:10 pm

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“Bernard Siegan: Reaganite and University of San Diego law professor Bernard Siegan, died on Monday at age 82.

In a pathbreaking 1980 book, Mr. Siegan challenged the view set out by the New Deal Supreme Court in 1937 that property rights are somehow inferior to other rights and deserve lesser protection. Gail Heriot, a colleague at the University of San Diego, summarized Mr. Siegan’s thinking this way: “What’s yours is yours, what’s mine is mine, and the government does not have unlimited power to take that property or to tell us what to do with it.” Who could have given him such a crazy idea? It was James Madison, the father of the Constitution, who wrote: “Government is instituted to protect property of every sort… that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.”

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