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Running America on Hot Air by William Tucker Ortega y Gasset, the great Spanish philosopher of the 1930s, described what he called the "modern barbarian." "The modern barbarian," he wrote in The Revolt of the Masses, "is a person who looks at the highly complex modern society and takes it to be a natural object." People think that apples and oranges appear in the neighborhood grocery the same way they grow on trees. They do not perceive the highly complex social network that makes these things possible. Nor do they appreciate its fragility. "Whenever there is a shortage of bread," ...

Friends, Romans Countrymen! Here are the facts. I was doing a little investigating into the nefarious activities of the ACLU. It turns out that the Panhandle Chapter of this many-headed hydra meets in a Public School in Pensacola, Booker T Washington High School, to be specific. Our tax dollars are going to pay for them to have a free meeting house! Is this right? I say it is not. I have been trying to contact the Superintendent of Schools in that area. If any of you feel the same inclination, his name is Mr Paul and his number is (850) ...

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