You put it to say I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston

telephone directory, then by the 2,000 people on the faculty at University.

As government expands, Liberty contracts.

It's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad the country is, the people are lining up the food.

That's a good thing.

First of I think you missed his time.

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It's the Ricochet podcast with Peter Robinson and Rob Long.

I'm James Lallix and today we talk to Kimberly Strassal of the Wall Street Journal

and it's the launch of the Long Poll.

Let's have ourselves a podcast.

It's the Ricochet Podcast, everyone. It's number 463, and we assume you've been here for at least 462 of those if not well go

back in the archives and find them somewhere on iTunes somewhere back in the dim distant

memory before our current situation manifested itself.

But at least our current situation gives us something to talk about.

Rob Long will be here to add his two cents in a second.

Peter, you're there right now.

I am indeed. We have a list of things to talk about including

Donald Trump and the Sharpie on... I couldn't care less about I couldn't care less either I

would actually I would like to recap briefly it's a discussion you and I

were having because it's fascinating and it touches on on how young this country is, which you realized when you attended another funeral,

not quite as close a family member as last time when you buried your dad, but you went back to

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