September 23, 2010 11:04:09 AM
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JMG
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It means we are free to speak our minds.
This should not be confused, as it seems increasingly to be, with being entitled to what we say. The latter
requires good reasons. The former requires a mouth. (Check it out in the dictionary.)
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The cost of running for office is totally out-of-hand. The difficulties
of running as a challenger are overwhelming.
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One cannot 'fix' life's persistent difficulties, but the answers are embedded in the description of the difficulties.
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Your expression "it's a free country"
does not really address our difficulties , and in fact, in our age it just encourages babble. Anything of importance is put off by the implied expression of equality at the level of one's mouth.
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