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Thought For the Day: Experts On the Public Good Are Often Wrong and Sometimes Dangerous

“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: True Friendship Rests On Understanding and Being Understood

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca The more that things change; the more they stay the same.  This is just as true today as it was … Continue reading

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First Principles: A Juror Has A Duty to Follow the Juror’s Conscience

“It is not only [the juror’s] right, but his duty…to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.” — John Adams, 1771 (2nd US President)    

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