I Still Believe In Hope

Conservatives Are Fond Of Pointing Out There Are Problems In This World Can't Be Solved By Throwing Money At Them. There Are Even More That Can't Be Solved By Dropping Bombs On Them.

Economist Frederick Thayer Has Studied The History Of Our Balanced-budget Crusades And Has Come Up With Some Depressing Statistics. We Have Had Six Major Depressions In Our History (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 And 1929); All Six Of Them Followed Sustained Periods Of Reducing The National Debt. We Have Had Almost Chronic Deficits Since The 1930s, And There Has Been No Depression Since Then - The Longest Crash-free Period In Our History.

Many A Time Freedom Has Been Rolled Back - And Always For The Same Sorry Reason: Fear.

I Often Plagiarize From Myself. I Like To Think Of This As Ecological Journalism: I Recycle.

I'm Sorry That Government Involves Filling Out A Lot Of Forms. ... I'm Sorry Myself That We're Not Still On The Frontier, Where We Could All Tote Guns, Shoot Anything That Moved And Spit To Our Hearts' Content. But We Live In A Diverse And Crowded Country, And With Civilization Comes Regulation.