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TOLERANTION IN RELIGION

They [federalists] fill their newspapers with falsehoods, calumnies, and audacities…we are going fairly through the experiment whether freedom of discussion, unaided by coercion, is not sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth, and for the maintenance of an administration pure and upright in its actions and views. No one ought to feel, under this experiment, more than myself. Nero wished all the necks of Rome United in one, that he might sever them at a blow. So our ex-federalists, wishing to have a single representative of all the objects of their hatred, honor me with that post, and exhibit against me such atrocities as no nation has ever before heard or endured. I shall protect them in the right of lying and caluminating, and still go on to merit the continuance of it, by pursuing steadily my object of proving that a people, easy in their circumstances as ours are, are capable of conducting themselves under a government founded not in the fears and follies of man, but

“SIDE EFFECT” DARI RAMADHAN DAN LEBARAN

Momen bulan Ramadhan (Puasa) dan Hari Raya Idul Fitri (Lebaran) adalah merupakan kegiatan tahunan bagi umat muslim sedunia khususnya lagi bagi umat muslim di Indonesia. Seperti biasa jika mendekati bulan Ramadhan aktivitas masyarakat semakin meningkat, entah itu dalam rangka persiapan untuk acara Buka Puasa, sahur, kegiatan-kegiatan ibadah yang bernuansa keagamaan lainnya yang mengiringi bulan Puasa ini. Jika kita lihat aktivitas ekonomi pada bulan puasa ini, terasa sekali terjadinya peningkatan kapasitas ekonomi riil di masyarakat. Para pedagang/produsen/penjual mendekati bulan Ramadhan mulai menaikkan harga barang-barang (inflasi) terutama sekali terjadi pada barang-barang kebutuhan pokok (sembako) yang djual di masyarakat. Kemudian, semakin mendekati Hari Raya Lebaran, para pedagang semakin bernafsu menaikkan harga barang-barang kebutuhan, tidak saja sebatas sembako, melainkan menjalar kepada kebutuhan barang-barang sekunder seperti TV, kipas, dan alat-alat elektronik lainnya. Semua