State of Fear

Wisdom: Eisenhower and Michael Crichton on Science

Anyone can rent a scientist. But when Federal funding is at stake, it appears you can also rent a conclusion. In his farewell address to…

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. James Madison
“It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.” David Hume
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Abraham Lincoln
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere ... Bertrand Russell
Constitutional and unconstitutional aren’t just simple terms of approval and disapproval. A bad law may be perfectly constitutional. A wise and humane law may be unconstitutional. But what is almost certainly bad is a constant disposition to thwart or disregard the Constitution. Joseph Sobran