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Thomas Sowell
Many have argued that capitalism does not offer a satisfactory moral message. But that is like saying that calculus does not contain carbohydrates, amino acids, or other essential nutrients. Everything fails by irrelevant standards
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Nationalism cannot exist in a conflict-free condition; it cannot exist as a thing devoid of grudges and claims. Wherever the nationalism of one group rears its head, immediately, as if from beneath the ground, this group's enemies will spring up.
Richard Lindzen (climate scientist, MIT)
Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.
Edward R. Murrow
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Mark Twain
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Frederic Bastiat
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty.
AA Gill
But don’t for a moment imagine that the bicycle-riding, organic-hedgerow-grazing, self-denying, 40-watt miserablists are in fact selfless crusaders for the common good. Never underestimate the sustaining pleasure in a hair shirt. Just look at George Monbiot, and witness a man who couldn’t be happier about the imminent demise of life as we know it. It’s given him purpose, prestige and celebrity: without global warming he’d be a geography teacher.
John W. Gardner
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Gary Bushell
The Green Party will go from green to red faster than a frog in a blender.
Tom Paine
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Right now

Well said, Pixane.

Posted by Tom Paine on Saturday, June 02, 2007 in Biased BBC, Current Affairs | Permalink

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Tom ... don't forget to keep those nominations coming in - vote early and vote often!

Posted by: jameshigham | Sunday, June 03, 2007 at 11:44 AM

This is an issue in the UK. It surely is not one in the US.

You would be awfully hard pressed to get anti-Israel stuff a fair hearing on any US campus.

Frankly, the criticism of Israel in places like the FT is refreshing. There is more than the one side of the coin presented in the US. Sounds like the UK is getting an equally inaccurate flipside of US coverage.

Lastly, one likely solution to Darfur is one we are unable to talk about: small arms. If every man, woman, and child had them, there would be less predation. But no, let's have marches in NA and Europe and make silly logos on the internet. Let's pretend those things matter one whit.

As you said, just another rain dance.

Posted by: Ben Around | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 01:51 AM

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