"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide ( Read more... )

"Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the "wall ( Read more... )

Interesting (and embarrassing and sad) list:

Which U.S. Presidents owned slaves?.

A common argument is that they were a "product of their times". Bad argument, because this guy, and people like him, were a product of their times, too.

This moment in US history brought to you by my current reading of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your ( Read more... )