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And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

In California, the idiotic legislature continues to fiddle while the state's economy burns.  Rope, anyone?

Meanwhile, in the Rust Belt, states like Indiana continue the difficult road to economic recovery.
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