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Every Two Years, One Of The Most Hotly Contested Elections In Texas Is The Poll Taken Among Members Of The Capitol Press Corps To Determine Who Are Actually The Ten Stupidest Members Of The Legislature. Two Years Ago, There Were Thirty-seven Official Nominees And Several Write-ins.

Economist Frederick Thayer Has Studied The History Of Our Balanced-budget Crusades And Has Come Up With Some Depressing Statistics. We Have Had Six Major Depressions In Our History (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 And 1929); All Six Of Them Followed Sustained Periods Of Reducing The National Debt. We Have Had Almost Chronic Deficits Since The 1930s, And There Has Been No Depression Since Then - The Longest Crash-free Period In Our History.

The Libertarians, Of Whom I'm Rather Fond, Are Running Harry Browne. Libertarians Are, Just As They Claim, Principled And Consistent - They Believe In Individual Liberty. Commendable As They Are, And Despite Their Reliability As Allies In Civil Liberties Struggles, You May Notice That Libertarians Sometimes Prove That A Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds, And That There Is A Difference Between Logic And Wisdom.

I Prefer Someone Who Burns The Flag And Then Wraps Themselves Up In The Constitution Over Someone Who Burns The Constitution And Then Wraps Themselves Up In The Flag.

So Keep Fighting For Freedom And Justice, Beloveds.