Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Friday, April 1, 2011

Lies, damned lies, and the AARP CEO: “We are a strictly nonpartisan organization”

AARP CEO: “We are a strictly nonpartisan organization” | Philip Klein | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

Barry Rand, the chief executive officer of AARP who donated $8,900 to President Obama’s election campaign in 2008, on Friday told the House Ways and Means Committee that the group was nonpartisan.

“We are a strictly nonpartisan organization,” Rand said at a hearing on the group‘s finances.

Yet as I wrote in my column:

Though it bills itself as a non-partisan group representing the interests of 40 million Americans over 50, the reality is far different. Over the past three election cycles (2006-2010), contributions from individuals who named AARP as their employer went 95 percent to Democrats, according to an analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics. This doesn’t include the $8,900 the group’s CEO, Barry Rand, contributed to Obama before he joined AARP.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/04/aarp-ceo-we-are-strictly-nonpartisan-organization#ixzz1IHV0MNZA

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