I hope that this won’t be a surprise to the reader, but a whole generation has grown up in which lying, deception, and manipulation are just part of the game; a generation where too many people think that responding to a question with, “That depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” under oath is a sign of cleverness.
– Clayton Cramer (in his article What Clayton Cramer Saw and (Nearly) Everyone Else Missed for History News Network yesterday, about the Michael Bellesiles affair – link via Instapundit)
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January 7th, 2003 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
 One of the Georges – I forget which – once said that a certain number of hours’ sleep each night – I cannot recall at the moment how many – made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory. Baxter agreed with him. It went against all his instincts to sit up in this fashion, but it was his duty and he did it. January 4th, 2003 | Comments are closed
Oh please not again. January 2nd, 2003 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous January 1st, 2003 | Comments are closed
…if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers December 30th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
…But nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist – and I am even tempted to add that the economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger December 28th, 2002 | Comments are closed
And by the way, gun rights supporters are frequently mocked when they say it deters foreign invasion – after all, come on, grow up, be realistic: Who’s nuts enough to invade America? Exactly. It’s unthinkable. Good. 2nd Amendment Mission 1 accomplished. December 25th, 2002 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” December 22nd, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Gender is too important an issue to be left to people who think it’s more important than anything else. December 21st, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man is of his bones. But if you break a nation’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. December 18th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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