“If it’s “settled,” then it ain’t “science.” - Tam K.

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“...It’s creepy ... that the educated elite really don’t think the law should be applied fairly.  All this talk about justice and the rights of man - it all goes by the wayside when it’s someone famous.
That’s not the rule of law.  That’s... government by glitterati.” - “miller,” in a comment at Althouse

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“There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people.  For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.” - Thomas Sowell

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“When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
When you have a hammer and a sickle, every solution looks like a government takeover.” - zmdavid, at Ace

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“Cats - too small to make into mittens, too large to be considered really safe.” - prob. anon., quoted by “Mikee”

Via:  Tam

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“The real purpose of hate-crime laws is to reassure politically significant groups... that someone cares about them and takes their fears seriously.  That’s nice.  It does not change the fact, though, that what’s being punished is thought or speech.” - Richard Cohen

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“My suspicious meter REALLY pins when judges start telling U.S. citizens that they do not have standing to bring a constitutional challenge.  There's a public official who’s self-impeaching.” - Mark Philip Alger

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“I've seen Mythbusters; there’s no way that was just one stick of dynamite!” - Joanna

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“If companies that are ‘too big to fail’ are too big to exist, then bills that are ‘too long to read’ are too long to pass.  This sort of behavior — passing bills that no one has read — or, that in the case of the healthcare ‘bill’ haven’t even actually been written — represents political corruption of the first order. 
If representation is the basis on which laws bind the citizen, then why should citizens regard themselves as bound by laws that their representatives haven’t read, or, sometimes, even written yet?” - Glenn Reynolds

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“The difference between a pundit and a reporter can be summarized in four words: ‘Pick up the phone!’ … If you never get up off your butt, make some phone calls and do some reporting, you stop thinking like a journalist. Before you know it, you’re just another damned useless intellectual.” - R.S.McCain

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