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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth.

This means there is an inevitable tendancy of Government to restrict freedom ever more wretchedly. DMCA? Abusive patent ovverreach? PATRIOT? All merely corollaries of the root problem, my friends!

That's why I am posting this: The Free State Project

As far as I can tell, it's our best chance to have a free society. Even ESR thinks so (whatever you think of him!)

I wouldn't put 'people' in quotes like that.

Even though some Republicans are taking that tack, the party could still move in the right direction. You can't expect improvements, unless you honestly expect them.

I also wonder about things like this. His speech reads well, but I'll never really know if Ted was trying to save her life, or his own. *sigh*

It's easy to lay blame - it's harder to lay asside your own vices, and become a better person, or a better group.

I guess Democrats could start by admitting that Clinton was kind of an over-sexed dink, who worked against Democratic goals on plenty of occasions, and lied to the American people.

BOSS Jim Gettys? As in, the corrupt politician with something less than a chance of being elected Governor over Charles Foster Kane???

I thougt he was fictional!