The State of Connecticut is proposing a law to gag free speech on the internet.  These are some of the clauses in legislation, currently under review, which would render comment illegal: (a) A person commits electronic harassment when such person, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, transmits, posts, displays or disseminates, …

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Some multi-millionaires object to welfare on the grounds that it discourages hard work and and encourages dependency.   In the U.S capital gains and qualified dividends in the US are taxed at only 15%, and if that isn’t welfare for the rich I have never seen welfare.   The huge gulping noise you hear is the sound …

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Read Epicurus                                              They peddle fear here. They peddle fear of terrorists and sudden death. They peddle fear of rapists and of angry drivers. They peddle fear of government and paying tax, Of deer ticks, butter, sugar, fat, untested drugs; Of unknown visitors and men in turbans; Of invasion war and sudden death; Of gunmen …

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In the South London suburb of Croydon on July 18th two police officers asked a churlish young woman to pick up a fast food wrapper she had dropped on the ground in a shopping mall. She picked it up, then deliberately dropped it again, challenging the police to do something about it.  When they protested …

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