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W, Sep 7, 2011. 12-3 pm HT, MSNBC presidential debate at Reagan Library, Simi Valley CA.

Th, Sep 22, 2011, 12-3 pm HT, FOX News presidential debate, Orlando, FL

M, Sep 26, 2011, 11:30 am HT, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul interviewed on Jon Stewart Daily Show

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

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I personally believe it's every citizen's civil duty to pay attention to what their government does, to question their government and hold these people's feet to the fire. If you don't do that, you will get bad government.

Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura

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It was the right thing to do. We seek justice in every case.

U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni about dismissal of human trafficking case against Mike & Alec Sou

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Congress can impose liabilities on you, your children, and grandchildren without your consent, and even without your knowledge. This is another example of government holding itself above the law.

Ron Paul, candidate for U.S. President, 2012

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A country whose population has been trained to accept the government’s word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan

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In America today, and increasingly throughout the Western world, actual facts and true explanations have been relegated to the realm of kookiness. Only people who believe lies are socially approved and accepted as patriotic citizens.

Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan

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The way Amerikan justice (sic) works is that prosecutors in about 96% of the cases get a plea bargain. US prosecutors . . . put sufficient pressure on innocent defendants to coerce them into making a guilty plea in exchange for lesser charges and a lighter sentence. . . . Amerikan criminal justice (sic) is organized to produce conviction regardless of innocence or guilt.

Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan

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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.

Will & Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History, pp. 79-80.

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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

Will Durant, historian, on why Rome fell

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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others

Socrates, who was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock by an Athenian court

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I am the governor. I'm not your pal.

Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, in a soundbite that has reverberated around the state.

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Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

Ronald Reagan Click for audio

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Anderson Cooper Interviews Dr. Andrew Wakefield

Submitted by HPI on Sat, 01/08/2011 - 04:16

Andrew Wakefield has been accused of "elaborate fraud" in a study published in the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) years ago. Investigative journalist Brian Deer, who figures prominently in this story, is said to have spent seven years investigating the Wakefield study.

An unfriendly Anderson Cooper, who has read at least some of the Deer articles, rather than Wakefield's much longer book (understandable, there's only so much time, and this is a breaking story) interviews Wakefield. When Wakefield keeps saying that the information backing up what he says is in his book and finally lifts a copy for us viewers to see, Cooper gets downright rude by saying, "Sir, I'm not here to have you pitch your book, I'm here to have you answer questions."

Wakefield, a former surgeon and medical researcher, is the son of medical doctors: a neurologist and a general practitioner.

The MMR vaccine is probably quite the money maker since at least some public schools and colleges in the U.S., and quite possibly virtually all, require their students to have the shot in order to attend school, whether their parents or the students themselves like it or not. Hawaii is no exception.

The fed/state's judgment overrides the individual's own judgment about what's best for their children or their one and only body in this life? What could be more diabolical? And this is the freest country on earth?

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