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To: combjelly who wrote (284821)	4/20/2006 9:57:03 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572448

yeah the left is for academic freedom. Savage attack "Scott Savage ... by all accounts is a gentlemen in both his personal and professional life as a librarian in Mansfield, Ohio. "So, why has Scott been accused of sexual harassment at work, and why is his case lighting up the blogosphere? "You see, Scott works at Ohio State University's Mansfield campus, where he serves as head of Reference and Instructional Services at the university's Bromfield Library. Recently, the entire faculty voted -- without a single dissenting vote -- to investigate Scott for sexual harassment. "So what was his crime? Did Scott make sexually suggestive comments to a student? Did he grope a co-worker? "Nope. As a member of OSU Mansfield's 'First Year Reading Experience Committee,' Savage had the nerve to suggest four conservative books as required reading for the school's freshman class, namely: 'The Marketing of Evil' by David Kupelian, 'The Professors' by David Horowitz, 'Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis' by Bat Ye'or, and 'It Takes a Family' by Sen. Rick Santorum." -- Rebecca Hagelin, writing on "So much for academic freedom," Tuesday in WorldNetDaily at www.worldnetdaily.com

To: combjelly who wrote (284821)	4/20/2006 1:29:52 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572448

CJ, If for no other reason, if the government doesn't out weigh the largest company or companies, then it will just be a tool of that(or those) companies. Big difference: Said companies don't have the police, national guard, or military at its disposal. Even Microsoft has to kiss up to the government these days. While I understand your affection for a small and limited government, I assure you it ain't going to happen on a national scale. Half of politics is reconciling the ideal with the realistic. As long as the ideal is alive and well, I'm fine with that. Tenchusatsu

To: combjelly who wrote (284821)	4/20/2006 5:17:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572448

Not going to happen. If for no other reason, if the government doesn't out weigh the largest company or companies, then it will just be a tool of that(or those) companies. Accepting that for the sake of argument, the government could be considerably smaller, but still be far larger than any private company.

To: combjelly who wrote (284821)	4/22/2006 1:18:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572448

Look, I am a Texan, born and raised. While I understand your affection for a small and limited government, I assure you it ain't going to happen on a national scale. If it does, then the nation is screwed. The thing that cracks me up about the right's reaction to large gov't is that throughout history, its the corporation that has screwed the average American much worse. I understand the need for corporations and when they are reasonably or fairly good, they are very good. But when they are bad, they are over the top bad. The right thinks they are wasting their money paying taxes but think they are getting a great deal when buying something from Wal-Mart. And their poster hero is a Donald Trump with bad hair.