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“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.” – General Charles Napier expresses a nineteenth century view of multiculturalism, quoted by Douglas Murray in the course of explaining that the West’s values are better. October 10th, 2007 | Comments are closed
 I agree that there is nothing iDave could say that could convince me to vote Tory apart from “I resign”. – commenter Nick M October 9th, 2007 | Comments are closed
It’s a pretty good piece, though author Bara Vaida calls me a “conservative,” which is only true if “conservative” is a synonym for “supports the war.” But then, that’s common usage these days. October 5th, 2007 | Comments are closed
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot. – George Orwell October 1st, 2007 | Comments are closed
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behaviour, career, and sexual orientation – Camille Paglia September 22nd, 2007 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – HL Mencken, US journalist. I would love to have seen him write about the likes of Bush, Blair and Gordon Brown. September 21st, 2007 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater – Milton Friedman September 15th, 2007 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
“I would never, ever use violence against one of my own children. I usually find that waving the gun around works.” (A line I remember – I think accurately – from the glorious Lock N’ Load CD by Denis Leary). September 14th, 2007 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Andrew Keen: Are you comparing the Instapundit, the idiotic crazy libertarian ex-law professor, to Polly Toynbee and Robert Fisk? They are my heroes! Adriana Lukas: No, I am not comparing Instapundit to Polly Toynbee or Robert Fisk. That would be unfair to Instapundit. – Adriana Lukas, speaking at a debate at the Front Line Club. September 6th, 2007 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
In the next few days Pope Benedict plans to issue his second encyclical – the most authoritative statement a pope can issue – which apparently will focus on social and economic inequity in a globalized economy. In the statement, he is expected to denounce the use of tax havens as socially-unjust and immoral in cheating the greater well-being of society. According to the Times (UK) newspaper, the statement may have been inspired by a recent request to the Vatican by Romano Prodi, the Italian prime minister, who urged church leaders to speak out on tax evasion. – The delightful Corporate Accountability and Workplace website. Quite right, too. What higher moral authority could there possibly be than a Prime Minister of Italy? September 3rd, 2007 | 46 comments - (Comments are closed)
I believe taxes – of all kinds – should be kept as low as possible and that the pressure to get them down should be relentless… Taxes on income are taxes on effort, work and entrepreneurship. Taxes on capital are taxes on investment and risk taking. But it is effort, work, entrepreneurship, investment and risk taking that we need to continue to grow our economic base. – Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner. September 2nd, 2007 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it “undermines the work ethic,” but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives. – Charles Murray, US author. (I greatly enjoyed his recent volume, Human Accomplishment) August 29th, 2007 | 44 comments - (Comments are closed)
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