Last night I had a nightmare . . . I woke up in a cold sweat, thinking of what Bishop Samuel Wilberforce’s wife reputedly said

An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties . . . it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it

[Not for] billions of years, will the real history of the universe begin. It will be a history illuminated only by the reds and infrareds

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Instead of union, let us have disunion now. Instead of fusing the small, let us dismember the big. Instead of creating fewer and larger states,

elephant, n. A mouse built to government specifications. — Robert Heinlein THE MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES IS SANITY Last week, [five industry groups] filed suit in

HAPPY NEW YEAR! LIVE LONG & PROSPER!! The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn’t died yet. — Tom Holt, Ye Gods! (1992) It sounded

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.— John Adams There are 1011 stars

[O]f those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people;