A purely voluntary good deed is certainly something that I like doing. But when the recipient uses it as a claim on further favours and rewards me with hate if I refuse, when he insists on my being his perpetual benefactor just because I initially took pleasure in helping him, then charity becomes burdensome and pleasure vanishes.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker [1782]
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November 16, 2020 Why Regime Change Became Necessary in November 1963
Practically from the start of his administration, President Trump was suspected of serving as an agent of the Russian government. The U.S. national-security branch of the federal government — specifically the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI — were convinced that Trump had been compromised. An enormous investigation was launched into Trump’s relationship with the Russians. For the first two years ...
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by David Stockman
James Madison is surely smiling from his grave. Pursuant to his constitutional design, last night a badly divided electorate got an utterly gridlocked government—with the ...
