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Notable Quote – Even When “For Goodness”, Government MUST Always Be Restricted

by Skip / 8 January 2023 8 January 2023

Unless we are willing to restrict the powers of government even in respects where it might be used for good purposes, we shall not succeed in preventing an indefinite growth of government powers. To allow everything which seems expedient for the achievement of a desirable end is to dispense with all moral principles. The submission …

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Notable Quote – On the Left, It Is Always about the Revenge

by Skip / 23 December 2022 22 December 2022

Emhasis mine: Since the French Revolution, leftwing politics, as distinct from the liberal sort, have been essentially about revenge, including in Great Britain with the founding of the Labour Party in 1900, an event recently characterized by the Daily Telegraph as an act of vengeance. Then, leftist vengeance meant class vengeance. While it remains so …

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Notable Quote – Hey, Wokesters! We’re Tired of Being Blamed for Stuff We Didn’t Do

by Skip / 18 December 2022 18 December 2022

And we are mighty tired that you keep insisting, from your over-blown sense of Superior Morality, that we should just shut up and accept the guilt spilling out of your mout. Well, Up Yours, wokesters! Reformatted, emphasis mine. And yes, this was over a bigoted play. Right to the point in the first line: But …

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Notable quote – I Just Wish That the GOP, Especially the NH GOP and Elected Republicans, Showed as Much of a Grasp on Things as Musk

by Skip / 30 November 2022 30 November 2022

Actually, several of them. And of course, being Elon Musk, it has to be in the form of tweets. Sidenote – He’s a brilliant guy – Telsa, SpaceX, Boring Machine, StarLink, and now Twitter. And with the latter, who knew he could be an insightful and amazing great comedian? He takes on all sorts of …

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Progressives Have No to Little Concept That Changing a System Here Necessarily Means Changes Will Occur There and There And…

by Skip / 23 November 2022 23 November 2022

As I said in my earlier post (“The Biden Administration Is about to Add a $6/Gallon Tax When You Fill Up Your Car“), the Biden EPA mavens want to arbitrarily jerk your energy (For each and every energy source you utilize) from a tax of $1/ton to upwards of $190/ton. It IS (after all) their …

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Notable Quote – Fear Progressivism/Socialism FAR More than Populism

by Skip / 19 November 2022 18 November 2022

A two-fer: SHOT: Prof Thomas Sowell (Knowledge and Decisions) It is not the source or the ruthlessness of power alone which defines totalitarianism, but the unprecedented scope of the activities subjected to political control. E.g., name a part of your life in which Government HASN’T intruded and you’ll begin to understand “unprecedented scope”. I’ve challenged …

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Notable Quote – Election Style as Only Kurt Schlichter Can

by Skip / 8 November 2022 8 November 2022

Emphasis mine, some abstractions. And yes, I’m not with the “Republicans that yammer that we shouldn’t gloat” crowd; I’m with Kurt.

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Notable Quote – Lying with Impunity and Then Demanding You Affirm Their Lie

by Skip / 23 October 2022 23 October 2022

“The modern Left’s standard tactic is first to propose a transparent counterfactual (men becoming women perhaps being the most egregious), act on it as if it were real, and demand we all do the same. They never stop, they never sleep, they never quit. The Great Reset proposes to command by fiat what Nature and …

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Progressives are ALWAYS Eliminating “Liberty”

by Skip / 17 October 2022 17 October 2022

“Progressivism reconstructed American liberalism by dismantling the free market of classical liberalism and erecting in its place the welfare state of modern liberalism. The new liberalism discarded economic liberties as archaic impediments to necessary improvements to society’s health, welfare, and morals. . .” (e.g., The “Collective” over the Individual – Individual Liberty being the entity …

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Notable Quote – It’s Narcissism All the Way Down

by Skip / 15 October 2022 15 October 2022

Having surrendered most of his technical skills to the corporation, [the contemporary American] can no longer provide for his material needs. As the family loses not only its productive functions but many of its reproductive functions as well, men and women no longer manage even to raise their children without the help of certified experts. …

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