Slavery.

“…just make you leaner.”

How’d that work out, exactly, for us in the ‘90s?

Cuts.

Obstructionist.

Perspective

Seems just as applicable now as it did nine months ago.

Make no mistake: America is in a media war. It is an extension of the Cold War that never ended but shifted to an electronic front. The war between freedom and statism ended geographically when the Berlin Wall fell. But the existential battle never ceased.

—Andrew Breitbart, Righteous Indignation

Pretty much sums it all up.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

—Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, 1774