25 YEARS AGO IN REASON.* "Ronald Reagan has been making a great deal of hay in the primaries with a demagogic dem·a·gog·ic also dem·a·gog·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue. dem and jingoistic campaign on behalf of maintaining the alleged sovereignty of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. over the Panama Canal Panama Canal, waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic (by way of the Caribbean Sea) and Pacific oceans, built by the United States (1904–14) on territory leased from the republic of Panama. and the Canal Zone Canal Zone: see Panama Canal Zone. Canal Zone or Panama Canal Zone Strip of territory, a historic administrative entity in Panama over which the U.S. formerly exercised jurisdictional rights (1903–79). ....One neglected point is that the Canal Zone is an egregious e·gre·gious adj. Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant. [From Latin example of socialism in action, since the U.S. government owns not only the Canal but the entire Zone territory, and every Zonian is a U.S. government employee. How can an alleged opponent of Big Government devote so much energy to a persistent defense of an enclave of U.S. socialism?" --Murray N. Rothbard, "The Panama Canal Caper" * "Will society collapse from...defiance of authority?...There is hope because millions of people across this land keep on getting their jobs done, building their communities, and creating reasonably satisfactory lives for their families, all by generally ignoring edicts and fiats imposed on them by all sorts of would-be managers." --John McClaughry, "De-Managing America" |
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