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The end result of this incestuous relationship is the same as occurs whenever such closely related bodies become intimate – idiot children. Unfortunately, they’re running the country. It’s like “Deliverance” without all the banjo music. – Commenter ‘Veryretired‘ July 5th, 2009 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 All the existing [medical care] schemes, including the present American mixed corporatist/socialist model, represent a transfer from the young and healthy to the old and chronically sick (and to the medical cartel, of course). The way it’s used in practice, the phrase “having health insurance” means having the right to place oneself on the receiving end of these transfers. No honest discussion of the situation is possible until the entirely false and misleading concept of “health insurance” is dropped. – Commenter Ivan June 23rd, 2009 | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. – Milton Friedman June 20th, 2009 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. – Voltaire, rationalist & satirist (1694 – 1778) June 18th, 2009 | 62 comments - (Comments are closed)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. – Winston Churchill June 13th, 2009 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom – Friedrich Hayek …or perhaps not May 17th, 2009 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Why are the Liberal Democrats not called the Illiberal Democrats if they are not liberals either? Maybe they should be called the Lino party, as in liberal in name only. – Commenter Chris H April 9th, 2009 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
The cognitive dissonance you speak of is found on the right as well, it is not confined to the left. Actually, the problem is, there is no dissonance, there is an honest and fair dinkum doublethink, with no internal conflict. – CountingCats, commenting here. March 29th, 2009 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Those in power in the Capitol – as well as many local politicians – make skillful use of those who rely on government services to advance their spending agenda. They use children, the disabled, the elderly and others who appear vulnerable to justify increasing taxes. When reasonable arguments are made that higher taxes in an already high-tax state could lead to fiscal ruin and less for everyone, politicians and bureaucrats use these dependent classes as human shields. (via John Beck) March 12th, 2009 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
Britain is to cut the speed limit from 60 mph to 50 mph on most roads to ‘save lives’. Does anyone seriously believe this is not in fact to raise more revenue from speeding tickets? The solution is obvious. Break the law and smash the cameras. And when they replace them, smash them again. And again. And again. And again. We are way way way past the point where words are enough. If you actually expect to make a difference, you better get used to the idea that this sort of ‘direct action’ is the only thing that will make any impact at all on the powers-that-be. Don’t believe me? Well do you think radical muslims in the UK and elsewhere could have eroded deeply entrenched ‘givens’ on free speech if their objections to any public criticism of their religion were not backed with explicit or implicit threats of actually real world violence? No, I do not like it either but that is where we now find ourselves, so get use to it. Be willing to pick up that brick and actually throw it or you are irrelevent. Push has come to shove. March 8th, 2009 | 62 comments - (Comments are closed)
There are no jack boots here, that’s too obvious, perhaps at some later point more overt force if there is too much “selfish” foot dragging by you or me, though the powers and aggression of the government’s already-existing “force” is sufficiently threatening to anyone who might resist. Make no mistake about that. The speech (2/24) by Obama was a seemingly soft yet determined Declaration of War against free exchange, against the natural and beneficial chaos of the myriad of human transactions (spiritual and economic – which cannot be rationally or logically separated by the way!). He is simply doing that which popular mainstream philosophy and pop culture point to and in effect “authorize.” – ‘Mister Integrity‘ February 25th, 2009 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
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