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September 1, 2012 · 5:15 AM

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Has anyone even bothered to ask why the tuna are eating mercury?

—Jim Gaffigan

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August 27, 2012 · 2:00 AM

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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

— Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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August 19, 2012 · 7:50 PM

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

—Samuel Adams, 1779

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July 22, 2012 · 10:03 PM

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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

—Guidelines preceding the comments section at Barry Ritholtz blog

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June 19, 2012 · 2:01 AM

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In truth, German character—so admired and feared in some 500 years of European literature and history—led to the present Germanization of Europe. These days we recoil at terms like “national character” that seem tainted by the nightmares of the past. But no other politically correct exegesis offers better reasons why a booming Detroit of 1945 today looks like it was bombed, and a bombed-out Berlin of 1945 now is booming.

—Victor Davis Hanson, writing at Townhall.com