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** WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
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There is not perhaps in human affairs anything so unaccountable as the indignity and cruelty with which the far greater part of mankind suffer themselves to be used under pretence of government. For some men falsely persuading themselves that bad governments are advantageous to them, as most conducing to gratify their ambition, avarice, and luxury, set themselves with the utmost art and violence to procure their establishment: and by such men almost the whole world has been trampled underfoot, and subjected to tyranny, for want of understanding by what means and methods they were enslaved. For though mankind take great care and pains to instruct themselves in other arts and sciences, yet very few apply themselves to consider the nature of government, an enquiry so useful and necessary both to magistrate and people. Nay, in most countries the arts of state being altogether directed either to enslave the people, or to keep them under slavery; it is become almost everywhere a crime to reason
about matters of government. But if men would bestow a small part of the time and application which they throw away upon curious but useless studies, or endless gaming, in perusing those excellent rules and examples of government which the ancients have left us, they would soon be enabled to discover all such abuses and corruptions as tend to the ruin of public societies. It is therefore very strange that they should think study and knowledge necessary in everything they go about, except in the noblest and most useful of all applications, the art of government.
– Andrew Fletcher, A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militias ([link removed]) [1698]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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September 25, 2019
King Richard and Kings Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Trump ([link removed])
The opening to Ridley Scott’s 2010 film Robin Hood inevitably brings to mind President Donald Trump. The prologue to the film states: King Richard the Lion Heart, bankrupt of wealth and glory, is plundering his way back to England after ten years on his crusade. Doesn’t that statement describe what has been occurring in the United States for the past ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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