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• We’re getting National Health Care, and we’re going to get it good and hard

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H. L. Mencken I’m tired of the health care debate. It’s not much of a debate anymore when the Republican lawmakers are arguing for socialism-lite and the Democrats are arguing for maximum strength ...
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• Solutions and implosions on the path to liberty

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  Allow me to apologize in advance for my continued adoration of the great Robert Higgs. In his latest piece he details the reasons why he is hesitant to champion “solutions” to the tyranny of State power. Higgs is a modern day H.L. Mencken. Sure, he’s a cynic and some may consider him a pessimist, but he’s ...
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• Mad Men: Obviously We’re All in a Different Mood

  
  Poptimal.com — Authority: 512
  Wait. You’re telling me this was the episode before the finale? But everything has already happened! The president got shot! Betty announced she didn’t love Don (and got proposed to by Francis)! Margaret got married! Peggy hooked up with Duck again! Trudy behaved even more awesomely than usual! I have major ...
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• Quote of the Day

  
  Pension Sprachschule Maria Shipley — Authority: 422
  A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. – H. L. Mencken – Collected Poems
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• A New Deal Constitution

  
  Tenth Amendment Center — Authority: 604
  by H.L. Mencken This satirical piece first appeared in The American Mercury, 41 (June 1937), 129-36, and was reprinted in condensed form by The Reader’s Digest, 31 (July 1937), 27-29. In order to indicate what reached the widest audience, the condensed version appears here, thanks to LewRockwell.com The ...
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• Why I am a not a Liberal

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 522
  Progressives and liberals like to criticize conservatives for being antiquarian and stuck in the past. These charges, if they are honest at all, rest on the shaky assumption that all change is progress.H.L Mencken stated it better than I (or anybody else, for that matter) ever could:The world always makes the ...
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• The romance of retailing…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 106
  A guest post from (Roughly Daily) : source But then, Zippy can console himself that, as recent honoree H.L. Mencken observed, “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” As we revisit our plans to open that book store , we might recall that this is the ...
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• The Smart Set: George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencken (Cloth) (Kindle Edition)

  
  One Stop Shop for Woman — Authority: 137
  From Publishers Weekly Curtiss’s quasi-biographical study is at its best when he focuses on the friendship and collaboration of Nathan and Mencken when they were co-editors (and occasionally ghostwriters) of the jazz era literary magazine The Smart Set. If Nathan and Mencken had different styles and ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Smart Set: George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencken (Cloth) (Hardcover)

  
  One Stop Shop for Woman — Authority: 137
  From Publishers Weekly Curtiss’s quasi-biographical study is at its best when he focuses on the friendship and collaboration of Nathan and Mencken when they were co-editors (and occasionally ghostwriters) of the jazz era literary magazine The Smart Set. If Nathan and Mencken had different styles and ...
  3 weeks ago

• “The Trouble with Democracy” - excerpts

  
  B Shantanu's Blog — Authority: 125
  Enjoy excerpts from this stunning piece, courtesy Mises.org (emphasis mine). *** Excerpts from The Trouble with Democracy: Maslow Meets Hoppe by Doug French *** Chapter 24 from Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe . H.L. Mencken described politicians as “men who, at some ...
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