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Fooling Wrote: Feb 26, 2013 11:25 PM

More BRILLIANT Sowell! I have worked with these people, these "intelligentsia." The fools granted me two doctorates. They are despicable human beings. You should be afraid, I do not believe much in a devil, but if I did, they would be his handmaidens. It is astonishing that we have given such small, petty, pathetic little people so much power over our lives.

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silentCalfan Wrote: Feb 27, 2013 12:40 AM

Like so many progressives, Sunstein undoubtedly got an A+ in self-esteem and an F in wisdom. He follows the Wilsonian pattern of self-adulation and contempt for the common man.

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Shepherds and Sheep

John Stuart Mill's classic essay "On Liberty" gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people's decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing "that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging."

Professor Sunstein is undoubtedly correct that "people make a lot of mistakes." Most of us can look back over our own lives and see many mistakes, including some that were very damaging.

What Cass Sunstein does not tell us is what sort of creatures, other than people, are...

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