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November 08, 2009 02:50 PM What It Means by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules Yesterday, in the dead of night, the U.S. House of Representatives took a small step for Nancy Pelosi and a giant step for despotism. Freedom, David Hume famously observed, is seldom lost all at once. More often, it leaks out slowly. The petty tyranny of good intentions colludes with the bureaucratic imperative to stymie individual initiative [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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