MicroGroks
I’ve known Warner for a few years now (having met him at a Samsphere blogger get-together). Since then, this prolific, smart, and funny writer has been showing up all over the Right side of the blogosphere. After a notice of yet another site that picked him up as a writer (BigGovernment), I noticed "Er, …
Another take on the Next Steps for TEA Parties everywhere Read More »
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. – Thomas Jefferson, President
From Powerline, a continuation of the Paul Rahe discussion on Soft Despotism that I posted on Monday (emphasis mine): Two weeks ago, I posted on Power Line a piece, contending that President Obama’s health care proposals presuppose the administrative state’s assuming a power over our lives and well-being that is nothing less than tyrannical, and …
The next installment of on First In The Nation! Such an open and transparent gov’t you have there, Barry….shame if something were to happen to it…. …like reality
Continuing in the Paul Rahe series, I ask you – does the Nanny State sound so inviting now? Is the classic case of the gentle hands being gently wrapped around our collective throats? The influential and outspoken Progressives here in NH all vent their anger when we on the Right say "No thanks, we really …
If anyone thought U.S. Treasury bonds are a riskless investment, think again. Am I suggesting the U.S. government will default on its obligations? In my opinion, no other outcome is imaginable. If you doubt this conclusion, try to imagine federal, state, and local government paying off $10 trillion. It’s not going to happen, as the …
Introduction: Since the fraudulent June 12th Presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), an increasingly emboldened opposition, the green movement, has arisen to demand the overthrow of the IRI. The green movement refuses to desist from launching massive street protests in Tehran, Qum, Isfahan and other major Iranian cities. All this is …
Is Regime Change Coming to Iran? – an interview with Amil Imani Read More »
From the academician’s point of view – why the Nanny State, as being promulgated by the current crop of Progressives as "being good for us all" is so wrong when measure against the standard of Freedom and Liberty as espoused by the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. (H/T: NRO) Boiling water, frog…more from Powerline (emphasis …
He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power. – Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo
Just start asking them this question Who has first dibs on my money – me or the State? If the answer is "me", then ask them "then way are you so dead set in raising my taxes so that I can’t keep more of it?" If the answer is "the State", then ask them "when …
