“Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don’t like working a hundred hours a week for twenty-five cents a day, then find another employer! It is obvious to intelligent people, if not libertarians, that more generous employers will price themselves out of a market whose standards are set by the most rapacious.” PeopleIfsFactsLightHoursFiveWeekExampleOffersStandardsHundredAbuseTwentiesIntelligentObviousLibertarianAlternativesGenerousCentsEvidentEmployersTwenty FivePrevention Author:Michael Lind
“During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.” TwoWarStatesFactsFightingWinningPresidentUnitedCitiesUnited StatesWeekFrontsResourcesWoundedJulyRiot Author:J. William Fulbright
“All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.” ShouldFactsJobsWeekDegreesTrainingTiedRequirementsUnemploymentAssociatesCompensationJob Training Author:Newt Gingrich
“When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.” NeedsLooksFactsWeekSeriousAmountSolutionsSpendingRidiculousAddressesSenateDeficitProposalFebruaryDeficit Spending Author:Kristi Noem
“I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.” Has BeensReasonFactsStoriesMovingCertainThreeChurchWeekCrimeInformationSourceDecidedFundamentalsIncludingAvailableMoving ForwardDespitePostsInterviewsSpokesRelevantCredibilityFacilityJulyRemovalPersonnelScientology Author:David Miscavige
“The [Libyan] rebels this week kind of hinted to the United States that they could use a little help. Right. Like, America would just blunder around the Middle East killing people without all the facts. That doesn't sound like the America I know.” PeopleKnowsKindLittlesStatesFactsHelpingUseAmericaSoundUnitedUnited StatesWeekMiddleKillingEastRebelMiddle EastBlundersLittle Help Author:Bill Maher