Quotation for Today: A Secret System a la Nixon's White House Tapes

The quotation for today, as the post's sub-title teases the reader, introduces a story about alleged illegal activity by government workers. The alleged illegal activity involves government workers performing partisan political work while on the public payroll.  Apparently, the government workers, while performing their partisan political work, were utilizing electricity bought and paid for by taxpayers.

Quotation for Today: State Disapproved Freedom of Conscience

Religion's war on freedom continues in the United States.  The quotation for today, on the other side of the break, illustrates the extreme lengths that religious fanatics will go to in their attack on freedom.

Quotation for Today: Romney's Vision for America

“He did it to try to save the business.”

Mitt Romney

Quotation for Today: America's Electronic Roundup

"The government has been swooping up millions and millions of communications by ordinary people, then sorting through them to figure out what they really want." 

Cindy Cohn

Quotation for Today: Who Are You For?

Today's quotation shines a bright light on what could be the defining issue of the 2012 elections.

Destroying the Constitution in the Name of Religion

Religious zealots and their political kindred, in an effort to make the United States government an arm of the conservative "Christian" coalition, are attacking the Constitution of the United States.

Quotation for Today

"The reason the eurozone is governed by rules is that few of its member-states – least of all its wealthier North European ones –have any appetite for fiscal union. Crudely, rules (gouvernance) exist because common fiscal institutions (gouvernement) do not. But rules are no substitute for common institutions. And tighter rules do not amount to greater fiscal integration."

Simon Tilford and Philip Whyte, Tilford is chief economist at the Centre for European Reform and Whyte is a senior research fellow at the CER.

Centre for European Reform. (2011) Why stricter rules threaten the eurozone [Pamphlet, PDF medium]. Tilford, Simon and Philip Whyte: Authors. 

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