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It's been so quiet lately - what is happening with Cole's Notes and The Real Cole Cooper?

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Well, here I am again—wrestling with my inbox! I’m currently staring down about 2,700 emails spread across four different accounts, so it’s high time for a digital spring cleaning. To make things a whole lot simpler going forward, I’m streamlining how we stay in touch. If you’re reaching out about Cole’s Notes or my upcoming Substack pieces, you can find me right here at cole.cooper@gmail.com.

Friday posting

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Catching up on some filling and paying with a new posting software. Quote of the day: As Thomas Reed wrote, "[o]ne of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." Democracy values each man at his highest; socialism makes of each man an agent, an instrument, a number. Democracy and socialism have but one thing in common-equality. But note well the difference. Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude. Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a stat...