Has populism, whether from the right or the left, ensured that government preserves, protects and defends individual rights, of rich and poor alike, or that it obeys the strictures of the U.S. Constitution?

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But if America shows about No Gun Ri the dedication to the rule of law that it prides itself on, agonisingly difficult though it may be to decide exactly what happened there, it will demonstrate to the rest of the world that it obeys the rules it expects others to honour.

ECONOMIST: War crimes

Physicist (and revolutionary) Max Tegmark likes to say that his grandmother grew up in a different universe, because since the time when she was a child, humans have discovered that the cosmos extends much farther, and obeys vastly different rules, than previously believed.

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If he obeys the debt ceiling, he cannot spend the money that Congress has told him to spend, which is why most government functions will be shut down.

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One of Google's regulation wonks, Andrew McLaughlin, said the firm obeys the law wherever it operates but given that it has no office or staff in Thailand, it is not a Thai service or subject to Thai law.

ECONOMIST: Censorship and the internet

The goal of a well-run company may be to make profits for its shareholders, but merely in doing that provided it faces competition in its markets, behaves honestly and obeys the law the company, without even trying, is doing good works.

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