Notes from around the blogosphere - terrorist profiles, Eric Hoffer, Jimmy Carter, Social Security

1. Sweet Spirits of Ammonia posts a terrorist profile. This is a regular feature of that blog.

2. Atlas posts a 1968 editorial from Eric Hoffer.

3. Environmental Republican rebuts Jimmy Carter.

4. Willism posts another in a continuing series on the need for Social Security reform. This week he explores the negative impact Social Security has on private investment.

Quote of the day - Eric Hoffer

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

Eric Hoffer

Quote of the day - Eric Hoffer

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

--Eric Hoffer

Quote of the day - Eric Hoffer

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

--Eric Hoffer




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update - Amazon is really screwing up. The buttons above are supposed to reference books by Eric Hoffer.

Quote of the day - Eric Hoffer

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

--Eric Hoffer