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The First Amendment offers five guaranteed freedoms, and newscaster Brit Hume managed to bring three into play with recent comments he made about the life of Tiger Woods.
By this time, we all are familiar with Tiger’s tale. And to be honest, within a few days of Tiger driving his life out of bounds, I held no interest in him or the bizarre events that led to what will probably be a temporary demise of his golf career. The demise of his personal life is permanent.
The TV show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” hosted by comedian Jeff Foxworthy enjoys some popularity. It captures the TV template for success: quizzes/trivia, give away money and make presumably intelligent people look stupid.
When it comes to knowledge about how American government works, most do not have to be made to look stupid. Many are.
I read and hear constantly about the need to “cut down the size of government,” about pubic concern over “too much government” and the evils of “big government.”
So, how does government get so big?
Frank Batten Sr.
1927 – 2009
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