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Notable Quote – So What Is Fascism?

August 28, 2022 Skip

Emphasis mine: As Charlotte Twight has shown, the essence of fascism is nationalistic collectivism, the affirmation that the “national interest” should take precedence over the rights of individuals. So deeply has the presumption of individual subservience to the state entered into the thinking of modern Americans that few people have noticed – and no doubt many … Read more

Notable Quote – Slavery; It’s Never Been Just an American Thing

August 7, 2022 Skip

But that’s what our younger generations are being taught/led to believe (re: Black Lives Matter): In a world largely free of slavery today, it may seem hard to realize that slavery was an almost universal institution for thousands of years. Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was based … Read more

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Notable Quote – “We Refuse to Care about Stupid Democrat Obsessions.”

July 22, 2022 Skip

Years ago, when the Left was really starting to ramp up their Mob Social Justice outlook (and its concurrent Cancel Culture),Erik Erickson famously said: “You will be MADE to care” The tide is turning the other way and will accelerate if this advice is followed (emphasis mine): We don’t care about climate change. It’s a … Read more

Notable Quote – Contra the Left that LOVES Communism, The Freedom It Promises Always Results in Slavery

July 21, 2022 Skip

Communism failed and is bound to fail for at least two reasons: one, that to enforce equality, its principal objective, it is necessary to create a coercive apparatus that demands privileges and thereby negates equality; and two, that ethnic and territorial loyalties, when in conflict with class allegiances, everywhere and at all times overwhelm them, … Read more

Notable Quote – Buying Stuff but Using Someone Else’s Credit Card – And Then Say “See, We Did Something for You!”

June 14, 2022 Skip

Emphasis mine: Nothing so epitomizes contemporary liberalism as unfunded mandates, in which the federal government establishes programs and forces the states to pay for them. The very need to weigh benefits against costs – the essence of economics – is evaded by this irresponsible exercise of arrogance. It is like impulse buying and charging it to … Read more

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Notable Quote – when is “harm” not “harming”?

June 4, 2022 Skip

Remarks on Ronald Coase (The Problem of Social Cost) application (emphasis mine): The missed step that caused what I believe to be a calamitous misstep was identified more than 60 years ago by an economist who was, in 1991, awarded a Nobel Prize largely for his pioneering analysis of externalities: the late Ronald Coase. Coase was no … Read more

Notable Quote – And This Is How They Will Destroy America

May 30, 2022 Skip

I don’t get chances to abstract much from Kurt Schlicher’s columns even as I read them all the time – he writes in a style that DEMANDS the entirety be read in toto and it’s hard to excise a part to be standalone; all of the sections are required to get the gestalt of his point. This, I hope, stands alone in part, especially when combined with Michael Graham.

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Notable Quote – Consumers Determine the Marketplace

May 20, 2022 Skip

Socialists and Democrats (but I repeat myself) always lambast Big Business as the Evil component of capitalism. They forget: On the market of a capitalistic society the common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Those shops and plants … Read more

Notable Quote – So What Do Property, Prices, and Profit Have to Do with Each Other?

May 14, 2022 Skip

Absent the three Ps of property, prices, and profit and loss, individuals will be devoid of the incentives and information required to continually innovate and coordinate their plans to realize the gains from trade and the gains from innovation.

Notable Quote – If They Are Yelling at You, Know That They Are Losing!

May 13, 2022May 12, 2022 Skip

Look, I know that some of the regulars — and heaven help me, one or two times a year, me, myself — will fall into doomer mode at times. Standing on the ramparts is tiring work, and not only are the slings and arrows painful, what hurts the most is the HOWLING incoherence of the … Read more

Notable Quote – Capitalism Requires Both Individual Freedom and Respect for Private Ownership

April 26, 2022 Skip

Capitalism is an economy based on decentralized private ownership of resources and open markets; “based on” means that private ownership rights are acknowledged and respected. Most members of society must feel a duty to respect the private rights of others. Ownership rights must be exercisable without fear, ridicule, or disrespect from other members of society. … Read more

Another Word for Capital Is Productivity but “Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance”

March 26, 2022March 26, 2022 Skip

It’s not rocket science to conclude that whatever lowers the cost of capital formation, such as lowering the cost of investing in earthmovers, enables contractors to purchase more of them. Workers will have more capital to work with and as a result enjoy higher wages. -Prof Walter Williams (American Contempt for Liberty – Politicians Exploit … Read more

The American Left’s Long March …

March 25, 2022March 25, 2022 Skip

From a traditional sense of American normality, we are being eaten alive from the inside out – just like all great countries in the past. As fellow Grokster Nitzkahon has pointed out, the Left is no longer just engaging on ideas.

Notable Quote – Only Capitalism Puts the Individual Foremost. Everything Else Puts the State First

March 16, 2022 Skip

As Hayek frequently repeated, many intelligent and informed people of his day had been taken in by the claim that National Socialism was the next logical and historical phase of a collapsing capitalism. His point, one that most would accept today as evident, was that fascism and communism both represent totalitarian systems that have much more in … Read more

Notable Quote – Blame It on the Democrats That Blacks Can’t Spel

March 11, 2022 Skip

If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government school system in most cities. -Prof. Walter Williams (Black Americans and liberty) Doubt him? If you are angry at that, or the title, start reviewing the … Read more

Notable Quote – Don’t Let Socialists Define What Capitalism (As in “Greedy Corporations” and Profiteers)

March 8, 2022 Skip

Achieving profits is a condition of survival. Consumers leave no alternative for producers. If the products don’t satisfy consumers, producers won’t cover costs and won’t survive. The drive for profits is compelled by consumer preferences for better or more economically produced goods. Over time, competition displaces less satisfactorily performing producers – those who don’t earn … Read more

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Notable Quote – If It Saves Just One Life – Balderdash!

March 3, 2022 Skip

Choices have consequences – and costs. But why should, according to Prof. Thomas Sowell, only Government determine if it is “too much for you”?

Notable Quote – My Earlier Post Was a PERFECT Example of This!

February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 Skip

Politically, there are few ideas more potent than the notion that all your problems are caused by other people and their unfairness to you. That notion was the royal road to unbridled power for Hitler, Lenin, Mao, and Pol Pot – which is to say, millions of human beings paid with their lives for believing … Read more

When Civilization Gives up on Moral Principle …

February 19, 2022 Skip

Most of us think that is it a “higher-order” of living and recognizing what is around us with both a set of rules, both written and unwritten, that have been crafted (or dumped on us) over the centuries.

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Notable Quotes – only Tyrants like using the Scapegoat Technique

February 17, 2022 Skip