"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Taking It
Gotta admit: having argued in several venues, including my now-abandoned newspaper column, that the IRS "scandal" was anything but, I'm bothered greatly to know the then-head of the IRS took the fifth at the Congressional hearing. I'm sure it's on the advice of lawyers, yada yada. But it stinks.
(OTOH, this stinks even more.)
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