Notable Quote – Mark Steyn

“It is a small step from a citizenry that no longer knows how it should act to a citizenry that no longer knows whether or if it can act, and from there to a citizenry that can no longer act.” – Mark Steyn  

Notable Quote – Ace of Spades

“Yes, Establishment GOP, you can teach us that you will always lie to us, stab us in the back, humiliate us and crush us; but if you teach us that, be aware we are learning another lesson, too. Not just that “The Establishment Will Always Crush You,” but the lesson that There is no hope … Read more

Notable Quote – Prof. Don Boudreaux

Don Boudreaux

… from page 144 of Anthony de Jasay’s brilliant 1998 volume, The State (original emphasis):

Private property, capital as the source of countervailing power, reinforcing the structure of civil society versus the state, used to be considered valuable both to those who owned some and to those who did not.  Liberal thought no longer recognizes such value.  It considers that democratic procedure is the source of unlimited sovereignty.

This truth is as sad as it is undeniable.  Modern “liberals” – “Progressives” – are both suckered by, and proponents of, what is perhaps the most treacherous political myth to be held by modern humans, namely, that regular corruption-free elections with a wide franchise are sufficient to keep the power of the state within appropriate bounds.  It isn’t only that “Progressives” stubbornly ignore public-choice realities.  They also believe in the existence of a mythical ‘People’s will’ or ‘People’s voice’ that they treat as a god whose desires and commands (always, of course, interpreted by the secular priests called ‘politicians’ and a select few high-church pundits) ought always override the wishes and desires of puny flesh-and-blood individuals.

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Notable Quote – Steve Mac Donald

Shot: from an email, back from 2013, on a report from a meeting where NH Senate plans on endorsing Obamacare were being discussed: I arrived just in time to hear an influential member of the board saying (I’m paraphrasing here) what a great plan it was and the only people who would not want to accept … Read more

Notable Quote – Kevin Williamson

“The Clintons are creeps and liars and scoundrels and misfits, always have been, always will be. They are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of American politics.” –Kevin Williamson  

Notable Quote – Christopher Chantrill

You liberals took a wrong turn over a century ago. You thought of yourselves as a benevolent, beneficent elite, kindly dispensing justice and benefits to a grateful nation through a professional expert-led government. You completely misunderstood the nature of government. Government is force, not a beneficent Oz, and politics is civil war by other means. … Read more

Notable Quote – John Haywood

“in what sense are Americans still a “free” people, if their rulers feel free to lie to them with impunity?”

On the revelation from “Obama’s hatchet man David Axelrod” that Obama LIED about his stance on homosexual marriage (he was always for it but decided to lie to constituents to “win”) and only came out when it was politically expedient (see Anna Navarro), John Haywood at Big Government has this on Democracy and lying (emphasis mine):

Passionate advocates of same-sex marriage will argue that the ends justify the means, and it’s all for the best when compulsive force is employed to drag society towards a righteous judgment it was too slow to achieve by democratic consensus. It’s a fearsome wonder that anyone in the Western world is still willing to entertain that line of thinking, let alone Americans. Do you seriously think this will be the only “righteous judgment” your Ruling Class plans to force upon you, using the same tactics and rhetoric perfected during the push for same-sex marriage?

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Notable Quote – Judge Andrew Napolitano

Again, another example of the Constitution being redefined:

Last week, we learned how deep the disrespect for the Constitution runs in the government and how tortured is the logic that underlies it. In a little-noted speech at Washington and Lee Law School, Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of both the CIA and the NSA, told us. In a remarkable public confession, he revealed that somehow he received from some source he did not name the authority to reinterpret the Fourth Amendment’s protection of privacy so as to obliterate it. He argued that the line between privacy and unbridled government surveillance is a flexible and movable one, and that he — as the head of the NSA — could move it.

This is an astounding audacity by a former high-ranking government official who swore numerous times to uphold the Constitution. He has claimed powers for himself that are

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Notable Quote – Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not only a government employee.  He is, under a democratic constitution, at the same time a voter and as such a part of the sovereign, his employer.  He is in a peculiar position: he is both employer and employee.  And his pecuniary interest as employee towers above his interest as employer, as … Read more

Notable Quote – Dr. Thomas Sowell

Few things blind human beings to the actual consequences of what they are doing like a heady feeling of self-righteousness during a crusade to smite the wicked and rescue the downtrodden. – Prof. Thomas Sowell (Ph.D. Economics, syndicated columnist, author (The Housing Boom and Bust)  

Notable Quote – Star Parker

“…America was founded as a nation under God. The whole idea was that there are prior truths originating from our Creator and the role of government is to secure these truths and protect citizens. When the job of government is no longer to protect you but tell you where you can send your child to … Read more

Notable Quote – Mark Steyn

  [su_quote style=”default” cite=”” url=”” class=””]..in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced.  If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperment, within government defined parameters, it isn’t free at all.[/su_quote] The [un] Documented Mark Steyn pg 418

Notable Quote – Frederic Bastiat

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it allow education.  All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. -Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher

Notable Quote – John Hayward

Collectivism and the presumption of guilt <snip> What all of these stories, and so many others, have in common is the assumption of bad faith by liberals, who claim they can read the minds of everyone from dinner-party guests to society at large and detect the dark secret impulses seething beneath every word and deed. … Read more

Notable Quote – Jerry Pournelle

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. – Jerry Pournelle (writer, futurist, science fiction author, blogger) It puts to lie all of the inequality crap that today is considered to be “conventional wisdom”.

Notable Quote – Ludwig von Mises

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they … Read more

Notable Quote – Dana Loesch

On Obama’s outlook on “fly-over” or Middle America: 8. [On the view of progressives on Middle America] “We’re the bitter, bastard child of the coasts, and we use our guns, faith, and racism as Linus blankets to soothe our insecurities because, BUSH, obviously. We all sit around and eat corn from a shared tooth and every … Read more

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