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"'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. And 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer."

 – Joseph Sobran

I’m a Uniter, Not a Divider        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano        One of the claims being made in speeches at the Democrat convention (and, no doubt soon to be heard from the Republicans as well) is that our party and or our candidate are Uniters, not Dividers.  We don’t seek to pit one American against another.  Instead, we want to go forward together in harmony and unity.  Now, doesn’t that sound nice?  But what does it really mean?  Let’s look at what policies would really promote unity and harmony and what policies would really promote strife and division.             (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS – Smarts, Public Pools, Where’s the Beef, Reed This         By Terry Gray

How to strengthen the 2-party system         By Henry Lamb         Immediately following the 2000 election fiasco, there were loud cries to change the electoral process. Hillary Clinton called for an end to the Electoral College. Others called for a system of proportional representation. Some people even called for a parliamentary system of governance. Third-party enthusiasts complained about the uneven playing field and the built-in bias that favors the two major political parties.            (click to read more)

The Lesser Evil vs. The Greatest Good        by Lady Liberty         The 2004 election is now only three months away, and at the height of summer,   the campaign rhetoric continues to heat up. We're inundated with negative campaign ads; we're flooded with media reports of who is campaigning where; and most of us are left shaking our heads over the futility of finding even one candidate that's wholly acceptable. It's that lack of acceptable candidates over the course of many years now that's had most of us shrugging our shoulders and resignedly casting a ballot for the lesser evil, and which has finally come to mean that some no longer go to the polls at all.           (click to read more)

Privatization means more funding in classrooms          By: Geoffrey F. Segal           While the recent focus on education has centered on vouchers, testing and accountability, other issues also have important implications for the proper management of public schools.           (click to read more)

The United States of Prohibition          By Jonathan David Morris          As I've said a couple of times in this column, I'm leaving New Jersey after 26 years when I get married in August. My soon-to-be wife and I are leasing a townhouse in a magical paradise called Pennsylvania. In fact, we began moving stuff in this past weekend. We won't be living there till after the wedding, though. We don't want to live in sin. But anyway, all the shuffling around I've done lately has led me to think long and hard about the way laws differ from state to state -- especially when it comes to liquor laws. Some states are better than others, but none are ideal. All want to stand between you and your idea of a good time.            (click to read more)

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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of the Roman decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggles and failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, and consuming wars. -- Will Durant

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