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• THE RIGHT OF FREE ASSOCIATION

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 126
    The First Amendment of our Constitution lists about six rights.   Article [I.] (See Note 13) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to ...
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• Four Advances that Set News Back [CLIMATEGATE and The Supressed Marketplace of Ideas]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  4 Advances That Set News Back Jefferson’s vision for news called for a multitude of voices, competing in a freewheeling marketplace of ideas. By the end of his life in 1826, he had watched news make steady progress toward this vision. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, in his book Democracy in America of that ...
  3 days ago

• Imitation and the Art of Flattery: the Cold War of the Imagination

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 133
  Washington, Connecticut. At the end of his introduction to a re-publication of the Marquis de Custine’s “Empire of the Czar, A Journey Through Eternal Russia,” George F. Kennan recalls a quote from his friend Isaiah Berlin.  Kennan relies on Berlin’s remark that  ”victims make acute observers” to ...
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• HATE CRIME

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 126
  I expect it has been done, and I have just never heard it. Surely someone has mentioned it. When they write, some journalists commit hate crimes. Nonetheless, I fear this is just one of those things we have to put up with.   In Democracy in America , Alexis De Tocqueville   sort of put it this way.    I ...
  2 weeks ago

• As a Student of Realpolitik, Obama’s Catching On Fast: Dziennik, Poland

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 712
  In the realm of getting the job done – principle be damned – how is President Obama doing? According to columnist Zbigniew Parafianowicz of Poland’s Dziennik newspaper, the brass tacks deal-making Barack Obama has been pursuing shows that he’s adjusting well to the inevitable compromises of power. For ...
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• Video : Ron Paul Al Qaeda ‘Visited Afghanistan’

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 130
  Though Governor Paul is correct in asserting that the United States has supported puppet governments throughout the Arab and “Muslim world,” however, he seems to be grasping at anything to support his argument. First off, Governor, the United States did have a very specific reason for going into Afghanistan: Al ...
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• AMERICA’S ARISTOCRACY

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 126
  When Alexis De Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America , he observed  the class distinctions between Americans during the years of 1831 and 1832 .  He was particularly interested in these distinctions as they related to the governance of our society. What follows are a portion of the contents of Chapter 10, ...
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• Our subjugation is in proportion to our ignorance

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 486
  “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” ~H.L. Mencken “Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation.” ~Barack H. Obama “We are totally screwed.” ~R.D. Walker Let’s face it; most of our countrymen are pretty damned ignorant about government. ...
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• Lindsey Williams: “Tragedy, Hope, and Reality.”

  
  SliderOnTheBlack.com — Authority: 111
  In 1968, oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope and America embarked upon the largest privately financed construction project in history, the building of the Alaska pipeline. And during that construction, a young Baptist Minister from Florida named Lindsey Williams, became the Chaplain for the ...
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• Cold War's End — The Wall Comes Down

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 419
  It must be a little hard to understand, for anyone reading this under the age of about 30 or so, the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. Because one event has become historical shorthand for an immense change in the dynamics of not just our country, but the entire world. Weve all seen the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Postcards From the Edge: Tocqueville’s Letters Home

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  “This population is one of the happiest in the world.” —Alexis de Tocqueville in a letter to his father about the Americans he was encountering.
  5 weeks ago

• Why God Won’t Die

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 122
  Startling title, isn’t it? Lately, I’ve been entertaining thoughts on Nietzsche’s famous declaration “God is dead.”  You know, the Enlightenment Era idea that human beings have through the course of reason and rationality rid themselves of God and religion as a source of received wisdom.  It’s been ...
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• A Tale of Two philosophers: Tocqueville and Rousseau

  
  GM's Place.Com — Authority: 130
  A case can be made that the two French philosophers who have had the greatest impact on contemporary politics are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859). While Rousseau can be credited with being the philosopher most revered by the founders of the French Revolution – he was ...
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