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Insidious encroachment by men of zeal

By alex | Published: 4/25/2005
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. – Louis D. […]
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Bush reads newspapers!

By alex | Published: 4/15/2005
I was waiting for my bagel this morning and noticed a story on the cover of the Buffalo News: Bush orders border plan review. Bush had criticized an earlier announcement that passports would be required for Canadian border crossings in a couple years; which is a big deal in a city where you cross the […]
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Virtual skirmishing

By alex | Published: 4/14/2005
“Cyber attacks” — either breaking into public websites or otherwise shutting them down — seems to have staying power. This has shown up a number of times before, particularly (interestingly) when it comes to border disputes: in Palestine and Kashmir, for example. It turns out that there was a broad attack recently by some Chinese […]
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Students for an Orwellian Society

By alex | Published: 4/10/2005
I was disappointed to find that, while a number of New York universities (Columbia, NYU, RIT, SUNY-Stony Brook) have local chapters of the SOS, Buffalo apparently does not. Not surprising, given a lack of radicalism generally on the Buffalo campus, but it’s too bad.
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