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Notable Quote – Robert Heinlein

May 19, 2013

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome. – Robert [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – US Senator Mike Lee

May 17, 2013

“When an agency like the IRS can single out Tea Party groups; or the Department of Justice can monitor reporters’ conversations; or HHS regulators can openly extort the regulated; and there are no consequences — we are no longer citizens but subjects. It would be a mistake for Republicans to view the latest IRS scandal [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – US Senator Jeanne Shaheen

May 17, 2013

No, she didn’t say it but a commenter, JT Tiffany, did over at the Union Leader: Shaheen benefits from looking like Betty Crocker but She governs like Karl Marx Betty Crocker? Funny, I keep visioning her like this:

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Notable Quote – Prof. Dan Boudreaux

May 13, 2013

for the “Progressive,” to insist on spending your own money, and only your own money, is considered to be greedy and shallow, but to insist on spending other people’s money is considered to be selfless and enlightened. Truly strange. – Prof. Dan Boudreaux

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Notable Quote – Professor Don Boudreaux

May 5, 2013

Richard Ammerman, a registered nurse in Rhode Island, challenges me by e-mail to answer “yes or no” to the question: Do I care about income inequality? No. I do not in the least care about income (or wealth) inequality. I suspect that some of my bleeding-heart-libertarian friends will berate me for being insensitive, so it [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – F. A. Hayek

May 4, 2013

(H/T: Maggie’s Farm)

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Notable Quote – Common Core

May 3, 2013

Common Core is just the secular-humanist-educational equivalent of Shari’a Law, implemented by controlling, secular-humanist, anti-religious socialist, personal-choice-bigots who insist we spend billions more every year because every child learns differently but then can’t seem to see the hypocrisy of wanting every state, county, and School district across the fruited plain to follow a one-size-fits-all nation-wide curriculum, implemented by statist fatwa, advanced through an organized campaign based on guilt and intimidation, [ Read more ]

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Notable quote – Judge Andrew Napolitano

April 25, 2013

The pact with the devil occurred in the fall of 2001, when then President George W. Bush and Congress decided that they would use the machinery of the federal government to secure safety, rather than liberty. So, the Bush-inspired Patriot Act permits federal agents to write their own search warrants, and the Bush-inspired new FISA [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Law Professors Daniel Farber and Philip Frickey

April 25, 2013

Ultimately, the health of the republic rested on civic virtue – that is, on the willingness of individuals to sacrifice private interests to the common good. This school of thought, which sought to revive the classical virtues of the Roman republic, has become known as republicanism…. The dark side of republicanism is its potentially totalitarian [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Steven N.S. Cheung

April 24, 2013

Government should not be assumed to command more knowledge than the individuals affected. The latter, at least in the absence of the free-rider problem, have every incentive to inform themselves. Government – politicians and bureaucrats – will do so only if votes are at stake. In general, government may prove to be willing to intervene, [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – US Senator Mike Lee

April 23, 2013

On the commenting of Progressives that if you are not “for community” you must be for isolated individualism: Ours has never been a vision of isolated, atomized loners. It is a vision of husbands and wives; parents and children; neighbors and neighborhoods; volunteers and congregations; bosses and employees; businesses and customers; clubs, teams, groups, associations [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Russ Douthat

April 22, 2013

“When government expands, it’s often at the expense of alternative expressions of community, alternative groups that seek to serve the common good.” – Russ Douthat, author, NY Times Columnist

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Notable Quote – Martin Wolf

April 11, 2013

I’ve never agreed with the meme that ‘companies FORCE us to buy their products’: This charge – that corporations own customers – is another example of the lie that freedom is slavery. We are free to make choices, however. Insisting upon anything else demeans us. It is because we are free that corporations need to [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Ludwig Von Mises

March 30, 2013

“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state.  It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.  It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power.  It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – David Goodhart

March 23, 2013

For a democratic state to have any meaning, it must ‘belong’ to existing citizens. They must have special rights over non-citizens. Immigration must be managed with their interests in mind. – David Goodhart, British author

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Notable Quote – Joseph Epstein

March 21, 2013

Even when they have not lent their energies to promoting schemes for human betterment that depend on the mass coercion of real human beings, the intellectuals’ overdependence on ideas, and their consequent detachment from reality, have often turned them into little demons of ignorant subtlety. – Joseph Epstein   (H/T: Cafe Hayek)

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Notable Quote – Bobby Jindal

March 16, 2013

If our vision is to better manage the disaster that is the federal government, you can count me out. I won’t sign up for that. (I don’t want to) slow-manage the decline of America. That’s why we have Democrats. – Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana (R) at CPAC

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Notable Quote – H.L. Mencken

March 10, 2013

The prototypical definition of a Progressive: (H/T: Maggie’s Farm)  

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Notable Quote – Edmund Burke

March 9, 2013

“Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety and understanding is above their vanity and presumption — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Kevin Williamson

March 8, 2013

On US Senator Rand Paul’s (R-Kentucky) filibuster: The Left is a coalition of economic interest groups, while the Right is a coalition of philosophies — conservatives would call them “principles,” and progressives would call them “narrow ideologies,” but that is the difference. Conservatives swoon when a senator reads from Hayek; liberals swoon when somebody proposes [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA)

March 3, 2013

(Emphasis mine) It’s the latest example of why the Obama years will be remembered as the Era of Government Greed. There isn’t a problem President Obama thinks can’t be solved by more taxes and more spending. His solution is always to take more money out of the American economy and put it into the government. [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Jonah Goldberg

March 1, 2013

From Today’s G- File Anyway, the interesting thing about the sequester is how it exposes the shallowness of his (Obama’s) moral-equivalent-of-war rhetoric (or, if you prefer, his equally ridiculous elision of “community” or “family” with “government”). When military units have a hardship, they make do. When communities come up short of money, everyone pitches in. [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – James Gwartney and Richard Stroup

February 27, 2013

Similarly, the record of government planning in the United States is fraught with internal inconsistencies. The federal government both subsidizes tobacco growers and propagandizes against smoking. It pays some farmers not to produce grain products and, at the same time, subsidizes others with irrigation projects so they can grow more of the very same grain [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – George Washington on the importance of firearms

February 26, 2013

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . the very [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – C.S.Lewis

February 25, 2013

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good [ Read more ]

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