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Glenn Reynolds Biography

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (born August 27, 1960) is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and is known for his weblog, Instapundit, an American political weblog.

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You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Revolution, Serve, States, Values, Wells, Work

[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion".

Advocates, Compassion, Crap, Generosity, Self

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

Interesting, Clock, Chimes, Chime, Wrong, Proverbial

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.

Comforting, Feelings, Giving, Theories, Way

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Expectations, Optimistic, People

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

Majors, Mean, Parties, Party, Politicans, Tarring

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

Democrat, Hurt, Politics, Racism

With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

Memories, Secret, Ignorant, Worth, Having, Kerry

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.

People, Political, Possess, Quite, Routine, Tired

Where the U. N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Accountability, Politics, Concerned, General, Ground

The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

Ability, Class, College, Etc, Home, Status

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

Debt, Forever, Goes On, Paid, Things

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.

Point, Security, Self, Think, Thinking, Would Be

As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of.

Father, Heard, Law, Leather, Spend, Teacher

A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.

Equipped, Government, Modern, Prohibition, Sense

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.

Diversity, People, Pursue, Talk, White

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

Citizens, Japanese, Littles, Provided, Rights

The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government.

Bears, Body, Citizenry, Government, People, Twofold

[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.

Hens, Party, Pay, Pay The Price, Whoring

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

Hmm, Infuriating, Ministry, Petty, Politics, Product

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