I don’t care for how many Ukranians say ‘Ukraine’, if any of them think we should say ‘Ukraine’, they can swivel, as in English, it is and has been, ‘The Ukraine’.
– Samizdata commenter Mr. Ed.
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Our currency in the U.S. (often known in the black community as “Dead Presidents”) honors people who won wars. Andrew Jackson killed a lot of Indians. General Grant killed a lot of Confederates. Franklin Roosevelt killed the economy. March 3rd, 2014 | 131 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes, known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. – James Madison February 25th, 2014 | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)
The academic left has created a great deal of mischief by appropriating wholesome words for unwholesome ends. This game has been perfected with diversity, inclusion, social justice, and sustainability – all words that mean roughly the opposite of what they sound like. Diversity on college campuses denotes both lockstep conformity on identity group politics and radical stereotyping of people by race. Inclusion means excluding anyone who dissents from the prevailing orthodoxy. Social justice often means overriding fundamental freedoms and individual rights to impose arbitrary rule by elite redistributionists. Sustainability means transferring authority to decide how to use our resources from the marketplace to ill-informed bureaucrats. (hat tip to Michael Jennison) February 19th, 2014 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
I don’t think Cameron has conceded anything very much. The Lib Dems are not much farther to the left than he is personally and he would have a much harder time with his own party if he was not in a coalition. I think Cameron has done quite well by his own miserable standard. Cable is just one of those people that think that the debate (was there one?) about the role of the state has been settled and that elections are just about replacing the management team. – Samizdata commenter Peter T January 28th, 2014 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
[The state of Oklahoma will] refuse material support, participation or assistance to any federal agency which claims the power, or with any federal law, rule, regulation or order which purports to authorize the collection of electronic data or metadata of any person pursuant to any action not based on a warrant… January 26th, 2014 | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)
[Nigel Farage] is a politician, so everything he says needs to be decoded. But licensing [of handguns] is vastly preferable to banning, not just a little bit preferable… more importantly he is doing the one thing you are not supposed to do in polite society, he is actually discussing the subject. Next thing you know people will be discussing the NHS and the phrase “envy of the world” will not be heard anywhere. – Perry de Havilland January 26th, 2014 | 24 comments - (Comments are closed)
Crudely put, George Orwell is anyone’s bitch. Whatever the topic, whatever the political position, he can be wheeled out in support to enunciate universal truths in a voice as compelling as the ghost in Hamlet. January 18th, 2014 | 30 comments - (Comments are closed)
The United States, since the times of the “Great Society”, has spent approximately 24 trillion dollars on anti-poverty programs, while the percentage of those considered to be in poverty has remained the same. With a 50 year track record as evidence of the utter failure of the welfare state, it amazes me that the public continues to buy into this form of wealth re-distribution. – Samizdata commenter Michael Staab January 16th, 2014 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
Ever since Johnson declared this war on Poverty, I’ve often wondered – who won? Have they killed all the poor people yet? – Samizdata commenter Nick (nice-guy) Gray January 15th, 2014 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
If you are going to f**k the whole of France, that is not a bad place to start. – Schrödinger’s cat, a commenter at Guido Fawkes January 11th, 2014 | 49 comments - (Comments are closed)
The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another. The idea of a judiciary that would police the executive as an arm of a self-correcting tripartite government was worse than naive. January 4th, 2014 | 41 comments - (Comments are closed)
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