Glenn Reynolds

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Glenn Reynolds is a legal scholar and author known for his insights on freedom, technology, and individual rights, particularly through his influential blog, Instapundit.

Born
January 1, 1967
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"Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn't the least bit true. Many of the things government does, we don't choose. Many of the things we choose, government doesn't do. And whatever gets done, we're not the ones doing it. And those who are doing it often interpret their mandates selfishly."

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"Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry."

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"Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary."

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"The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it."

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"I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf."

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"Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best."

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"I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion."

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"If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays."

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"The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government."

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"But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone."

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"I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism."

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"Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization."

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"Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be."

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"When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive that they can only succeed when people aren't thinking clearly."

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"Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves."

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"[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties."

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"Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers."

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"The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically."

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"That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on."

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