Welcome to the 184th edition of the Carnival of the Vanities , the grand-daddy of all the blog carnivals. I’d like to thank Zeuswood for the opportunity to host this week; I’ve hosted several carnivals over the eight months or so that I’ve been blogging, but this was certainly the most wide-ranging and intense of all. I enjoyed reading all the posts and finding new blogs to add to my readings. So, without further delay, lets get to the contributions. We start off in the world of politics where Critical Mastiff says that citizens can do more to contribute to the fight against tyranny than merely waving a flag at a rally . But private citizens, when acting together, have tremendous power to spread the ideals of liberty on their own, without using tank battalions or national diplomacy. Given that the President unaccountably missed his chance to rally the people, as it were, I would like to submit my own suggestions: I would suspect that the government would rather c...
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