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How Bloomberg’s Bloated Ballot Initiatives Mock Freedom
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Rich out-of-state anti-gun activists are pushing misleading ballot initiatives in Maine, Nevada and California this year. And they’ll be coming to your state soon.
Here is a solid rule of thumb for those who wish to remain free: Do not allow politicians to reduce the complex to the simplistic.
Henry David Thoreau famously proposed that “that government is best which governs least.” And indeed it is. But that government is also best which governs slowly, carefully and deliberately. That democracy is best in which the people understand what is being debated in their name. And that country is best in which politics is conducted with openness, with nuance and with honor—especially where the fundamental rights of the people are at stake. |
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| There are those that say he has the Napoleonic syndrome. Evidence submitted so far say they are right. |
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