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Berlin is famous for having been the first to distinguish positive and negative freedoms. By not saying a word about this distinction, Ignatieff speech seems so boringly irrelevant. http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/be...of-liberty.html

It would be easier I think to agree to replace the House of Commons by an internet discussion forum than it will be to agree to replace public place elections by at home ones.

I would not say a majority and a people are synonymous. A whole group may vote for an action, it doesn't mean any member of this group is willing to do it. Power comes from a will or motivation to act together as a people.

Being pro life is about being able to give birth.

If you want to see an end to sexual abuse one day, you have to eat Jesus Christ's body (i.e. the so called "wafer").

Black is putting Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner in the same basket.

Dictatorship consists in the way in which democracy is used and not in its abolition. (Rosa Luxemburg)

Spending regardless of a criteria evaluation is certainly an issue.

For Argus, being polite means being hypocritical, I guess!

Tax allergy can only be cured by capturing economic rents on natural resources. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums//index....showtopic=14436

Unrepentant sinners have to abstain from communion.

Here the pontiff's encyclical letter, "Charity in Truth," released Tuesday: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict...eritate_en.html

Learn more about the just distribution of the social bases of self-respect: http://ppe.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/2/195

Learn more about real freedom: http://books.google.com/books?id=V-xR90PGW...lt&resnum=3

People voting for a constitutional monarchy are people voting against democracy.

Before being able to organize a necrophiliacs pride day, we have to be aware that some people write in their wills that they allow intercourses with their dead bodies.

He spoke also about leverage.

In essence, William Black said corruption is caused by a deliberate slashing of banking regulations.

How this loan would not betray the interests of savers is the question the Pope asked.

"Taxpayer money" is meaningful only for a demagogue.

Chretien pride parade: "I am fully convinced that our national unity strategy was necessary and right ...Sponsorship was conceived in good faith, its objectives were noble," (former prime minister Jean Chrétien said in an opening statement at the Gomery inquiry).

Russia's monarchy collapsed because of Lenin's adaptation of Marxism to a feudal regime.

They are already starving.

Gays emancipation and Quebec independence: same struggle!?

Armies have to be fed.