Susan Olsen

“So it is with this president. It’s not enough for him to stake and defend his positions. He wants you to know that he thinks deeper, sees further, knows better, operates from a purer motive. His preferred method for dealing with disagreement is denigration. If Republicans want a tougher line in Syria, they’re warmongers. If … Read more

“Possession, use, or threatened use of firearms (including but not limited to BB guns, air guns, water pistols, and paint guns) ammunition, explosives, dangerous chemicals, or any other objects as weapons on college property, except as expressly authorized by law or college regulations, is prohibited. Possession of knives with a blade longer than 4” is … Read more

“Americans, you don’t have to have a passport to fly domestically. American states, you don’t have to obey federal national ID mandates. America, you don’t need to comply with the REAL ID Act.“ So says the Cato Institute. H/T J. Aron Photo credit: WallyWorld.com

Pistol licensing – it’s the next best thing to all out gun control!

“Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe.” – Lee Harris, Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of … Read more

“There are no rational means of predicting the ‘future of humanity’ over a long period or foretelling the nature of ‘social formations’ in ages to come. The idea that we can make such forecasts ‘scientifically,’ and that without doing so we cannot understand the past, is inherent in the Marxist theory of ‘social formations;’ it … Read more

“I’m not a Catholic, or anything for that matter, and watching this circus unfold is giving me a migraine. A bunch of wizards and mystics all arguing over the magnitude of the unicorn herd, while posturing madly on the brink of the moral abyss. It’s 100% nonsense. And 100% Vaudeville, a rapidly-unfolding satire & farce … Read more

‘“Civil asset forfeiture,” as practiced by contemporary American law enforcement officers is close kindred to many of the abusive practices of his colonial-era antecedents who confiscated property and harassed innocent people in name of the British Crown. Acting through specially constituted “admiralty courts” in which due process rights were ignored, and the plundered property itself … Read more

“My elevator pitch is that the United States has a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality where the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, where almost 20 percent of our children are living in poverty, 40 percent of African-American children are living in poverty. We … Read more

“Why is there so much support for government controls? What’s wrong with markets? In short: insufficient opportunities for graft.” – Glenn Reynolds

“While donning a hoop skirt on occasion may not constitute a hate crime (whether it is a crime of fashion is another matter), make no mistake: The Southern belle performances routinely staged on campuses across the South constitute choreography of exclusion.”    

“New Hampshire women should not be forced to seek important health services from an organization that is immersed in scandal and currently being investigated by Congress,” Sununu wrote. “They deserve more choices and greater access to health care.”

“The whole world system heretofore had been sustained by the general good behavior of common men, by the honesty and punctuality of clerks, workers of every sort, traders, professional men. “General security depended upon habitual decent behaviour in the street and on the countryside. But the common man behaved well because he had faith that … Read more