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Git Along Little Dogies

September 5th, 2012

By Dan Miller It’s your misfortune and none of my own. I wish.

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: arrogance, government, misfortune, poem, power, satire, W.H. Auden
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Thank you, Government, for permitting success. Or something.

July 16th, 2012

By Dan Miller I was going to re-blog an article written by Mike at Make an Effort. I agree with what he said there. However, when I got to writing a short comment for the re-blog it quickly got too long. So, here it is. President Obama recently gave an historic address on business creation. […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: business, dependency, entrepreneur, free enterprise, government, private, success
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Trust but Verify Applies Not Only to Foreign Governments

May 6th, 2012

By Dan Miller Governance of a free people requires their continuously earned trust. Verification is needed to preserve that trust when it is justified and to destroy that trust when it is no longer justified. That is not solely the function of the principal media. Governance with decreasing mutual trust requires the use of ever […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Chen, China, conspiracy, culture, election, government, PSYOP, Zimmerman
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Have a Happy, Reflective, and Fruitful Fourth of July

July 4th, 2011

By Dan Miller Our history can guide our future if we will that it do so. Here are some words from a Fourth of July speech given by Theodore Roosevelt to the citizens of Dickinson, in the Dakotas, back in 1886. Dickinson had a population of about seven hundred but many from other communities came […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: fourth of july, government, idealism, independence, Roosevelt, speech
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Governments Rot When Their Citizens Let Them (Part I)

April 30th, 2011

By Dan Miller We get the worst government we’re prepared to tolerate. Not long ago I suggested that we might as well elect a real clown, Grumpy, to serve as president of the United States. When he ran (very successfully) for the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in 2010, Grumpy promised that, with him in office, […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Constitution, corrupt, culture, government, inept, politicians, revolution
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