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ArticlesApril 22, 2025
It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. — Samuel Adams, American revolutionary No one, no government agency has…
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SPECIAL VITAMIN D ISSUE No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits ... climate change the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world. —Christine Stewart,…
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SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE KEEPS . . . UH . . . CHANGING — Headline, news article in Nature, June 29, 2006 Well, not quite. This article reports on the conclusions of a National Academy of Sciences…
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Consensus is the business of politics. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period. — Michael Crichton, State of Fear OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE HEALTH CLAIM…
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. — Robert Heinlein All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void. —…
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It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons ... And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that…
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. — Patrick Henry On every…
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In Thompson v. Western States Medical Center, 535 U.S. 357, 371 (2002), the U.S. Supreme Court “made it clear that if the Government could achieve its interests in a manner that does not restrict speech, or restricts…
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If the law says that . . . a board or authority may do what it pleases, anything that board or authority does is legal—but its actions are certainly not subject to the Rule of Law. By giving the government unlimited…
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. — Poul Anderson, in New Scientist, Sept. 25, 1969 At this time, three…
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties, and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to…
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‘After the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775, General Washington and the Continental army lay in wait around beleaguered, British-occupied Boston for nine months, refusing to attack.’ Why the delay? The city was…
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My goal is to cut government in half, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. — Grover Norquist We couldn’t agree more, especially after reading the 547 pages of the FDA’s proposed rule imposing…
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