...secrecy, and the dishonesty it spawns, do little but create disaster...virtually every societal and economic disaster has gestated in secrecy. The Bay of Pigs, Viet Nam, the bombing of Cambodia, and Laos, the savings and loan debacle, the Enron debacle and the associated economic disaster -- all of these were hatched in secrecy and associated lies. For practical purposes, so was the current war in Iraq.

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Can the government stop someone who has no other options from trying to save his or her own life? According to a recent ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the answer is no.

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...our entire government runs on bribery and dishonesty (and everyone in politics and the media knows it). This bribery and dishonesty are called campaign contributions....

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Abigail Burroughs was only nineteen years old when she learned that she had head and neck cancer. Eighteen months of painful chemotherapy and radiation did nothing to stop its growth. Though there were drugs that could save her life, the Food and Drug Administration told Abigail she couldn’t have them.

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Maybe electing Joe Biden would be a very good thing.... A third party could support Biden as its candidate too if he were to win the Democratic nomination.

and... a follow up observation about Jean Edward Smith and stacking the court...

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Should there not have been an increase in the size of the Court if absence of an increase would have resulted in pro slavery or anti union decisions in the midst of the Civil War? Should there not have been an increase if a lack of increase would have resulted in the continued vitality of a then recent decision outlawing paper money -- the kind of money we use today? Should Roosevelt not have attempted his court packing plan if the price of lack of attempt would have been, as so many think, continued evisceration of the New Deal by the Supreme Court?

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The Romans were arrogant. They considered themselves the center of the universe. They considered others to be inferior, didn’t have good information on what others thought -- sometimes had exactly wrong information -- and seemed to believe the world existed for the benefit of Rome and that all should do as Rome did....
Velvel discourses on Cullen Murphy's new book Are We Rome? The Fall of Rome And The Fate Of America...

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