Wendy60 wrote: The neoconservatives are the reason why Boehner is not putting up a fight. The neocons do the thinking for the Republican leadership on all matters of strategy and morality in politics. Boehner wouldn't take a dump if the neocons told him not to, and if they told him to do so, he would strain for hours. Neocons want tax increases, because paying higher taxes is a sacrifice. Neocons believe that the little people have to be forced into sacrificing for the "collective self," i.e., the state, because that is the only way to preserve the social order. What they...
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whess Wrote: Dec 24, 2012 12:10 PM
Cesare Becceria was five years older than Thomas Jefferson and was a well known lawyer and writer on crime and punishment in both Italy and France at the time that Thomas Jefferson served as ambassador to France. Likely knew each oher personally.
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