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If you watched the Game of Thrones finale last night, did you make the same critical observations I did? If you never succumbed to the Game of Thrones mania, please stick with me – I guarantee my point applies to everyone, regardless. In one of the final scenes, the condemned Tyrion Lannister was brought out …
The night Westeros became a Republic (and allowed secession) Read More »
The internet is huge. Really huge. So incredibly huge…never mind, I’ll get to the point. You can’t see everything that’s out there so when we find something exceptional, we like to share. This is one of those times. Bill Whittle is tremendous, but this clip about Capitalism makes him more exceptional.
In an interview with Government-run State radio Comrade Sanders, Bernie Sanders speaks to many topics. But the one I found most interesting was socialism. How do you address the socialist label, which for those who forgot is a label he more or less gave to himself.
It may easily be foreseen that almost all the able and ambitious members of a democratic community will labor without ceasing to extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to wield those powers. … Centralization will be the natural government.” -Alexis De Tocquivelle (“Democracy in America”) And here …
Part 1 – that is, if I can keep myself on target for the rest. The above quote is the title of a post by Lloyd Alter in stating that there is really only one way to solve the Climate Change crisis – and that is to vote and he goes on to say there …
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty; socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude” — de Tocqueville
Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they can not destroy either the one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all powerful from of government, but …
The Embrace of Administrative Despotism – A Notable Quote Read More »
From today’s Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens opines on what “post-liberal” democracy is bringing to this world. “Much of modern European democracy,” he writes, “is of a post-liberal variety. Post-liberalism seeks to replace the classical liberalism of individual liberty, limited government, property rights and democratic sovereignty with a new liberalism that favors….
