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

Thursday, August 1, 2013

"Cindy" Christie's Bogus Attack on Rand Paul - Reason.com

Chris Christie's Bogus Attack on Rand Paul - Reason.com
Cindy Christie

Christie gets in touch with his inner Maureen Dowd.

 | July 31, 2013
Back in 2005, a woman named Cindy Sheehan was camping outside President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. Sheehan’s son Casey had died in the  Iraq War that Bush had started, and Sheehan’s vigil turned her into a heroine for many of the war’s opponents, including Dowd.  “The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq,” wrote the New York Times columnist, “is absolute.”
Unfortunately for Dowd, other parents also had lost children in Iraq, and some of them stepped forward to say they still continued to support the war, which had a rather complicating effect on Dowd’s overall point. But that is a logical consideration, and Dowd was not trying to make any logical arguments. She was trying to overwhelm them with sentiment.
Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, did the same last week when he tore into civil libertarians concerned about domestic spying. The House had then just finished debating legislation sponsored by libertarian Republican Rep. Justin Amash to rein in the National Security Agency. Speaking “as a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001,” Christie said he wanted “us to be really cautious, because this strain of libertarianism that’s going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought.”
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