The Northern Review

Life is the soul’s nursery — its training place for the destinies of eternity. — Thackeray
Life cannot be the soul’s nursery if it is taken over by the state.  If the state and its “government” is to provide the what friends and neighbors from time immemorial provided to friends and neighbors what will be left for [...]

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Michel de Montaigne in the 16th Century wrote this:
It is evident to me that there is no enmity like the Christian. Our zeal does marvels when it seconds our bent for hatred, cruelty, greed, and rebellion. But when it comes to kindness and moderation, our religion will neither fly nor walk: it is not there, [...]

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The Independent starts off an article with this:
In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The exact [...]

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The financing of judicial campaigns is a ecform of earwigging. Political forces, whether they be individuals or groups, seek the election of judicial candidates who will decide cases in certain favorable ways to the individual or group. In our electoral process money is speech. Political forces therefore spend money to get certain people elected. These [...]

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Seems everywhere you turn these days we are told the solution to the Depression of 2008 (a depression is when a recession comes to stasis, so to describe something as a recession is to say things are going to get worse) is to spend money.  The federal government is going to dspend, the states are going to [...]

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From time to time, I have brought cases which I thought would advance the public interest or the public trust. I have also brought cases which I thought were cases which a court would see as advancing the evolution of our progress of the law. I have brought cases which I thought would advance the [...]

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I heard it said a politician was excited because he was listening to the masses of voters. Then I heard him say in a campaign commercial that his opponent made a natural disaster worse as a result of opponent’s policies. The accusation was untrue and it was absurd. Then I heard him say in a [...]

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Drug Laws I looked at some of Washington’s controlled substances laws this morning. Link.  The laws make certain substances, certain material things, illegal. If you have them and do not have a right to have them you can be sent to jail, to lots of jail. Our jails are filled to the brim with such people [...]

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What sort of government is the United States government becoming?  Are we moving to a United States government which is democratic, socialist, totalitarian, communist, fascist? There is a good deal of major change taking place.

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Thanks to Folo here is part of an interview with Sarah Palin on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Brody: Let me ask you a little bit about media scrutiny because some of the media networks…wonder why you don’t go on some of the 24/7 cable networks. What is your response to that?
Palin: Well sometimes it just doesn’t [...]

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