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A very Carsonian quote -- "The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said." - Brad Spangler

"It's "because" Italian-Americans were once a persecuted minority, but once ward-heelers began to round up enough votes and influence from them they got the trappings of political respect accorded to any other significant voting bloc. Thus, a government holiday featuring an Italian. No disrespect to MLK Jr. intended, but his holiday is an example of the same pattern at work." - Brad Spangler

"America has no monopoly on stupidity. We just perfected it, that's all." - Brad Spangler

"Technically, no nation-state actually "exists". People, buildings and so forth "exist". The United States is an abstraction." - Brad Spangler

"Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of Beck or McCain. As a matter of fact, I hate them. HOWEVER... It's incorrect to state that the objection is that Dunn merely "quoted" Mao. The issue is that she referred to Mao as one of her two favorite "political philosophers". Now, there might be any of several reasons to quote Mao. Among other things, his thoughts on the technical aspects of guerilla warfare make his thought on that topic something that is relevant to study by military officers (for sake of the lessons of military science that can thereby be learned and reapplied). But it's a wholly different thing for a high government official to express admiration for Mao's *political philosophy*, just as surely as it would be a horror for a high government official to express admiration for Hitler's political philosophy. Not merely quote. Not merely study. Not merely admire his technical proficiency as a military commander. No, this isn't some innocent little thing like that, and it is fundamentally..." - Brad Spangler

"It's more than just a little bit ghoulish to exploit the victim of a heinous crime for a cheap attempt at gaining some political traction from the crime. No, she was not somehow asking for this or deserved it anymore than a woman in a short skirt is asking to be or deserves to be raped. To even suggest such a thing, as the article does, is reprehensible and monstrous. You should be ashamed of yourself for even posting this." - Brad Spangler

"I'm no fan of the GOP (at all!), but if you turkeys want to try to use the NEA as a tax-funded GOTV tool for the Democratic Party, you kinda-sorta-oughta have expected this. And, no, there's no denying that's exactly what that conference call was about." - Brad Spangler

"Murder is wrong because it violates the rights of the victim -- much like exercises in drug prohibition by the gangs of bandits our barbaric age euphemistically refers to as "governments"." - Brad Spangler

"What sort of morally stunted upbringing would someone have to have that would cause them to equate pleasure with murder? Is murder solely wrong in your opinion only because it's forbidden? And then getting high becomes just like murder because it's also forbidden? There's a word for people who can not make moral choices on their own because they have no inner sense of right and wrong. That word is "sociopath"." - Brad Spangler

"We ought to take the offensive in the debate. In and of itself, what is wrong with getting high? Absolutely nothing." - Brad Spangler

"And her name is "Cammie". Sweet. I can't be the only one thinking of the character from the Streetfighter games." - Brad Spangler

"That's right. There are only two possible divisions of opinion. if it ain't Coke, it's gotta be Pepsi -- right?" - Brad Spangler

"Or rather, pay for whatever YOU want to pay for. Just don't force somebody else to do so. Steal for neither." - Brad Spangler

"Standard left-statist assertion that the hypocrisy of the right-statists excuses their own hypocrisy. Pay for neither." - Brad Spangler

We're from the Reason Foundation and we're here to help! - Brad Spangler

"Why was scottknick dugg down for offering facts?" - Brad Spangler

"By and large, modern pagans tend to be nice people. This is a non-issue." - Brad Spangler

"The "Founding Fathers" mostly weren't even born in "the 17th century", which was 1601 through 1700. The 18th century consisted of the years 1701 through 1800." - Brad Spangler

"Buried as inaccurate because there's no option for "blatantly dishonest". Article falsely attempts to imply ACLU is against student prayer. The point is that government employees shouldn't be setting prayer on the agenda in a government facility that there are laws that say students must attend. The ACLU doesn't care if the kids want to pray. You're patting yourselves on the back for being so defiant when in actuality you're defying nothing. This is a non-issue. The news media ignored the "protest" because it's not news. Students are already allowed to pray and the ACLU wouldn't dream of stopping them." - Brad Spangler

"HEROIC!" - Brad Spangler

"While the RKBA is absolutely crucial, it's not enough by itself because it doesn't answer the question mentioned in the article for the post-Constitutional aftermath -- "But what then?" Guns can not provide either the will to resist nor the revolutionary theory adequate to restrain and channel insurgency away from terroristic acts that undermine popular support for revolution. The prospective Constitutionalist revolutionary of the 21st century must, therefore, first ideologically confront the failure of Constitutionalism -- in order to survey the intellectual landscape and seize upon that which comes after Constitutionalism, addressing its failures but holding true to the same Classical Liberal principles that inspired the US Founders. That answer is out there, and those who will not take up the challenge of its advocacy despite mere social ostracism will never stand and fight either. That answer is anarchism, and specifically individualist anarchism. Those who see themselves first..." - Brad Spangler

"Pierre-Joseph Prodhoun: "To be governed is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so…. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored...." - Brad Spangler

"And with a wave of government's magic wand, the permit process will turn the despicable act of sharing food with the hungry into the socially acceptable act of sharing food with the hungry. Huzzah!" - Brad Spangler

"TYRANTS!" - Brad Spangler

HEROIC!!! - Brad Spangler

"The author seems unaware that the "unity, tolerance and co-operation" s/he espouses is, by definition, outside the nature of any coercive political government, no matter how much its apologists try to wrap its tyranny in warm and fuzzy rhetoric. This is not mere "cynicism" but, rather, precision in ethical philosophy." - Brad Spangler

"The author seems unaware that the "unity, tolerance and co-operation" s/he espouses is, by definition, outside the nature of any coercive political government, no matter how much its apologists try to wrap its tyranny in warm and fuzzy rhetoric. This is not mere "cynicism" but, rather, precision in ethical philosophy." - Brad Spangler

"I think it's revoltING to portray a wave of prosecutorial bullying as "a growing revolt"." - Brad Spangler

"Insurrection without building a revolutionary class consciousness first is premature adventurism." - Brad Spangler

"Yet the decision to shut down you refer to was made by politicians, who you claim to distrust." - Brad Spangler

"The American Revolution was a clear cut example of secession. That's why the Continental Army didn't have to sail to the British Isles and lay waste to London in order to "win the revolution". They wanted to politically seperate from the British Empire. That process of political seperation of a portion of a political unit from another defines secession. There is zero justification for attempting to say otherwise." - Brad Spangler