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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

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  By Patrick Irvin • Sep 10th, 2009 • Category: Opinion

Whatever Happened to Sportsmanship?
by Patrick Dorinson 6. September 2009 22:03
http://www.cowboylibertarian.com/post/Whatever-Happened-to-Sportsmanship.aspx
Last Thursday the University of Oregon Ducks were thumped for the second year in a row by the Boise State Broncos, opening the 2009 college football season. Oregon looked pathetic and the Broncos looked a little better. As a matter of full disclosure, I graduated the [...]

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  By Patrick Irvin • Dec 9th, 2008 • Category: Editorial

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/BobGoldman/2008/12/09/a_word_to_the_ys
Bob Goldman
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Well, here’s a shocker! Tattoos can hurt your career. Call it “body art,” or call it the result of too many Jell-O shots, but you risk more than ridicule when you show off that inked-in image of Taylor Hicks on your bicep, or the Chinese symbols for “I have no idea [...]

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  By Patrick Irvin • Dec 2nd, 2008 • Category: Media Bias

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=338038
A pro-family activist is questioning why there is no outrage over the murder of a college student by a homosexual.
On November 21, William Smithson, 43, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to life in prison for the September 2006 strangulation murder of 23-year-old Jason Shephard. Smithson, a homosexual, murdered Shephard after slipping him GHB, a [...]

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  By Patrick Irvin • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: America, Video

Newt Gingrich: Let’s End Adolescence

Business Week
October 30, 2008
It’s time to declare the end of adolescence. As a social institution, it’s been a failure. The proof is all around us: 19% of eighth graders, 36% of tenth graders, and 47% of twelfth graders say they have used illegal drugs, according to a study by the National [...]