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One Of The Things That Always Drives Any Practitioner Of Journalism Crazy Is You'll Run It People Who Say Why Doesn't The Media Cover This Or That? Well Of Course The Media Covered It. Why Didn't You Read About It? And, You Know, It's, You Know, There You Are, It's Not The Journalist's Job To Knock Down Your Door, You Know, Punch The Url Into Your Computer And Force You To Stop Watching The Kardashians And To Read, You Know, A Report On Integrity In Government Instead, It's Your Job.

Why Be Thrifty When Your Old Age And Health Care Are Provided For, No Matter How Profligate You Act In Your Youth? Why Be Prudent When The State Insures Your Bank Deposits, Replaces Your Flooded-out House, Buys All The Wheat You Can Grow? ... Why Be Diligent When Half Of Your Earnings Are Taken From You And Given To The Idle?

America Under 30 Is A More Non-whites Place Than America Over 60. And We Know That Non-whites And Whites Vote Differently.

The Soviet Union Was Brought Down By A Strange Global Coalition Of Western European Conservatives, Eastern European Nationalists, Russian Liberals, Chinese Communists, And Afghan Islamic Reactionaries, To Name Only A Few. Many Of These Discordant Groups Disliked The United States Intensely. But Americans Were Able To Mobilize Them To Direct Their Ire At The Soviet Union First.

We Live In An Age Of De-democratization. The Number Of Democracies In The World Has Been Going Backwards Since 2005, And Even Many Existing Democracies Including In Europe Have Been Becoming Less Democratic.