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In which an older and wiser yet terminally earnest former liberal struggles to come to grips with the cynicism, hatred, and paranoia that plague both sides of the American political spectrum. "Can we all get along?"
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Blog roll (partial)(Former) Regular reads:InstaPundit (Glenn Reynolds) Sense of Events (Donald Sensing) Blogs I should read:Virginia blogs (active):Virginia political blogs (Waldo J.) Other political blogsOther Virginia blogsOther national blogsOther regional blogsOn hiatus, etc.Political Web sitesStaunton - Waynesboro - Augusta County GOP Virginia Public Access Project NBC News & Sports (Meet the Press, etc.) Federation for American Immigration Reform International Republican Institute Project for a New American Century American Civil Liberties Union Political humorJohn Muir's Day by Day Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury Dan Perkins' Tom Tomorrow The Onion (funny fake news) Scrappleface (funnier fake news) Guns 'n' Butter (right-wing funny fake news) Conservation linksNational Parks Conservation Assoc. (Shenandoah) Valley Conservation Piedmont Environmental Council Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries More links on this site: News linksNewspapers(Shenandoah Valley) 81 Magazine Radio and TVWRVA radio, Richmond, VA WTOP radio, Washington, DC WINA radio, Charlottesville WVPT Ch. 29 TV (PBS), Harrisonburg WHSV Ch. 3 TV (ABC), Harrisonburg WVIR Ch. 29 TV (NBC), Charlottesville News Web sitesThe New Dominion (ex-Augusta Free Press) And I quote:"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."
"As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves."
"Of the three forms of sovereignty [autocracy, aristocracy, and democracy], democracy, in the truest sense of the word, is necessarily a despotism because it establishes an executive power through which all the citizens may make decisions about (and indeed against) the individual without his consent..."
"To act successfully, that is, according to the rules of the political art, is political wisdom. To know with despair that the political act is inevitably evil, and to act nevertheless, is moral courage. To choose among several expedient actions the least evil one is moral judgment. In the combination of political wisdom, moral courage, and moral judgment, man reconciles his political nature with his moral destiny."
"Thus, whenever a concrete threat to peace develops, war is opposed not by a world public opinion but by the public opinions of those nations whose interests are threatened by that war."
"The texture of international politics remains highly constant, patterns recur, and events repeat themselves endlessly."
"Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations, only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen."
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour."
"My thoughts encompass divinity, therefore divinity is. The divinity that my thoughts encompass is associated with the order that arises out of chaos... As we expand our knowledge of this realm, we ... see it in terms of one sublime order that awaits full realization."
"Here, then, is the complexity, the fascination, and the tragedy of all political life. Politics are made up of two elements -- utopia and reality -- belonging to two different planes which can never meet."
"My biggest blunder in life was attempt to seek common ground with Keynesians, based on the naive thought that by putting my ideas in Keynesian language that I would make any dent on the Keynesians."
"War made the state and the state made war."
"Americans like to mock Kuwaitis as rich and pampered and lazy and decadent, which is exactly what the rest of the world says about Americans. Actually, we shouldn't mock Kuwait at all. It represents the hopes and dreams of Americans of all political persuasions. For liberals, it's a generous welfare state with guaranteed employment and a huge government bureaucracy. For conservatives, it's a country with no taxes and plenty of cheap maids who aren't allowed to vote."
"[Bill Clinton's] greatest strength is his insincerity... I've decided Bill Clinton is at his most genuine when he's the most phony... We know he doesn't mean what he says."
"Whatever one thinks of Bill Clinton, his opponents [*] must be thwarted. They are enemies of democracy and of the Constitution that insures its possibility. We long ago lost the luxury of choosing our allies. This is war."
"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."
Julia Roberts: "Can you prove any of this?"
THE 16 WORDS: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
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Last updated: 02 Feb 2013 113th Congress
Last updated: 12 Jan 2013 Virginia Government
This table has been updated to reflect the Nov. 2011 elections, but the leadership for the upcoming legislative session has not yet been finalized. The two parties have the same number of seats in the State Senate, so Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (a Republican) will cast the tie-breaking vote, where necessary. Last updated: 13 Jan 2012 Books on politics:
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