I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS BITTERNESS

thing.  If I have my guns and I'm out in the forest hunting with my family and friends, I'm happy.  If I'm attending my church with my family and friends, I'm happy.  If I'm hanging out with neighbors -- of whatever background -- who share my values and dreams, I'm happy.  If I have a job in a line of business which is not shackled by unions and government regulations -- and which hasn't yet replace me with low wage illegal labor -- I'm happy, and proud to be doing something that adds value to the American consumer without burdening them with higher prices or blocking their freedom to choose.

But if you've had the privilege of going to the most elite private high school in Hawaii, if you've gone to a private college in California and an elite Ivy League school in New York, and if you've had the privileged of going to Harvard Law School, then when you write a memoir of your life then of course the emotions of anger, hate and rage will make an appearance on 28 pages of your 442 page book, as they do in Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father.  And note well.  That doesn't even include the pages in which Barack Obama discusses the raging sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright ..
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Greg Ransom has a degree in Political Science and an advanced degree in Philosophy, with a specialty in the philosophy of science with a special focus on the science of economics. Ransom is well know among scholars writing on the ideas of Friedrich Hayek. Ransom studied with philosophers of science Alex Rosenberg and Larry Wright.