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To the political class, whatever the rhetoric, government programs aren’t tools for improving the country. They’re tools for acquiring the main goal of the political class: more power… - Glen Reynolds (All hail to the Blogfather… PBUHH) in USA Today – April 29, 2013 May 1st, 2013 | 19 comments
 …given there is a cross-party consensus that energy rationing is good for growth. - Samizdata commenter Kevin B. April 30th, 2013 | 8 comments
Dave is going to wake up one morning and find that the Conservative Party website, and any other right-of-centre source of information, is going to be shut away behind an “Over-18″ “hate-and-porn” firewall and he will be too stupid to work out what happened. - Samizdata commenter Rob April 26th, 2013 | 8 comments
“But the only job that someone like Antony Flew would get in a mainstream university today is cleaning the toilets”. If that is true – then cleaning the toilets is the only job worth having. - Paul Marks April 25th, 2013 | 15 comments
[W]hen you pull a gun the implication is that you will use it. All subsequent actions proceed on that basis. When you raise your interactions to that level here in Wisconsin you should bear in mind that Wisconsin is a concealed carry state. You better be prepared to play for the stakes you wager. - Samizdatista Midwesterner, discussing the implications of coercing people into ‘doing the right thing‘ with threats. April 20th, 2013 | 29 comments
Ah “intellectuals” – do you not just love them? I do – especially with chips. - Paul Marks April 18th, 2013 | 12 comments
No. North Korea is not socialism betrayed. It is socialism done. Which everyone here knows, but it is worth repeating. - Brian Micklethwait April 16th, 2013 | 28 comments
States love a few Big Businesses but hate lots of small ones… in essence, if there are more people who actually matter in an industry than can fit around a dinner table with the appropriate Government Minister, then clearly that is a sector that cannot be controlled by the state. And that is intolerable. And of course many Big Businesses also rather like those sort of relationships as a few large competitors with a similar size-to-brain ratio as themselves are much preferred to a whole bunch of innovative small folk who names they don’t even know and who might actually start doing things they did not expect to have to deal with. - Perry de Havilland March 19th, 2013 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Brian Krebs, a information and network security journalist, a few days ago had a little visit from a SWAT team:
His blog carries the story context. Krebs further notes:
Statutory murder is an occasional topic of discussion in the information security community, for instance by planting a small quantity of drugs on someone who is travelling to Singapore. It’s a risk, and it’s only getting easier to exploit with calls for ever more heavy-handed “security“. March 18th, 2013 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Sheldon Cooper is a typical very smart guy who thinks that because he is an expert in one field, he therefore knows everything about all other subjects as well. I suspect that he would be quite a fan of a centrally planned society, provided he was the one doing the planning. - George Mulberry March 17th, 2013 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Let’s see – Native Americans were wards of the state for a century, and, until the recent casino boom, were the most impoverished, addiction ridden, unemployed group in society; the family farmer has been the object of endless state programs to save him for most of he 20th century, and his numbers have shrunk from over half the population to under 2%; black people were “adopted” by the modern welfare state about 50 years ago, with the result that the black family has shattered, perhaps irreparably, and the male part is massively either in prison or unemployed, while the female half now has a 75% or so rate of births out of wedlock, and single parent families struggling with poverty lead to homicide from gang activity being the primary cause of death for young black males. The wars on poverty and drugs continues to decimate the very populations they were supposed to help, the federal education programs have overseen a massive decline in the competency and educational achievements of our youth across the board, and catastrophically poor literacy rates among the minority communities. The Fed decided to massively aid the housing market, to assist people in buying homes, and within a few decades, the housing and financial markets collapsed into a recession which we are still struggling to climb out of, and return to a semblence of our former economic levels. And so now, the progressive state under the current progressive regime is going to come to the aid of the struggling middle class? Yeah, that will work out just fine… - Samizdata commenter ‘veryretired’ January 27th, 2013 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
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