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Thomas Wark is a retired newspaper editor: New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Tell the SCOTUS Gang of Five:
I'll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one.
Timeless Advice
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
--
William Shakespeare,
Hamlet I, iii,
: Advice of
Polonius
to his son,
Laertes.
Nature Bats Last.
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