When big government has co-opted the "fourth estate" (journalism), then "we the people" are confronted with a fearsome master indeed

News Bias, Civil Disobedience, and John Adams’ Rule of Thumb

- Jim O'Neill
Sunday, July 24, 2011

“I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which we will have.â€