Stockman, Reagan’s budget director from 1981 to 1985, initially became famous for his zeal in slashing government spending on almost everything except defense. Less
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Cicero on cutting spending
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled,
Christopher Hitchens on heroism
Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.
Ambassador Dodd showing tolerance towards the Nazis, 1933
Fundamentally, I believe a people have a right to govern itself and other people must exercise patience even when cruelties and injustices are done.
Islamic kidnappers to journalist vicitim Daniele Mastrogiacomo
Where you’re from, the rules are unclear. That’s why you are surrounded with murderer, theives, betrayers.
EU lets pirtates go free
These Somali pirates picked the wrong ship to hijack. Photo: Royal Netherlands Navy / Koninklijke Marine Dutch naval frigate the HNLMS Tromp. Pirates apparently
Paul Ekman, psychologist, and author of Telling Lies: Clues to deciet in teh marketplace, politics, and marriage.
There are very few people who are really good liars- about five percent. Most people get away with the lies they tell because the
on Russian economy
It is a state sanctioned kleptocracy at the top, a redundant quasi socialist bureacracy in the middle, and a free market at the bottom.
cost of American Revolution on French
The staggering cost of the American revoultion would eventually bankrupt the French and lead to the high taxes that caused the French revolution.
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George E. Reedy World, 1970 Disillusioned by President Lyndon Johnson’s arrogance, George E. Reedy, LBJ’s former press secretary, brilliantly analyzes in “The Twilight of