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Dedicated to crisp signal and clear vision

This site is a collection of great thoughts, good humor, accurate data and high integrity opinions from only respected sources.

With all the trash, blarney and bullshit that passes for data, info and journalism these days, I hope you find this refreshing, challenging and enlightening.

Deficit, Schmeficit, We Got Guns

NYT: Pentagon Puzzle: What to Cut

The Dearth and Death of Compromise

Interesting thoughts on partisan polarization.

NYT: You Want Compromise? Sure You Do

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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."
- Adlai E. Stevenson


"All that's necessary for evil to profit is that good people do nothing."
-Winston Churchill


"When the eagles fail to soar, the parrots begin to jabber."
-Winston Churchill


“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals. We know now that it is bad economics.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (in 1937)


"When a country has 5% of the world's population but does 50% of its military spending then the persuasive powers of that country are in decline."
- "Prince Al-Subi" from the movie "Syriana"


"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
- unknown


"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
- Thomas Jefferson


”Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- MLK

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
- Nikola Tesla