Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s – the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it’s been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use illicit drugs because they are illicit. They are thumbing their noses at society. If they were legal, they might not.
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.
It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant – everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.
Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don’t have free circulation of labor, you don’t have free markets.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the ‘crimes against the peace’ for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can’t make decisions. But the decisions can’t all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.
Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‘suspects.’
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.