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

Monday, November 4, 2013

Government out of control gets cover : Some Things You Might Have Missed

Corrupt bureaucrats are using the Obamacare Scandal as deep cover to run wild while the few in media who watch them are distracted. Never trust government! m/r

The American Spectator : Some Things You Might Have Missed

By  on 11.1.13 
These other stories shouldn’t be lost in the stuff
The media is consumed as it should be by the massive failure that is HealthCare.gov and the hundreds of thousands of people throughout the United States losing health insurance as a result of Obamacare. But there are a few other stories that shouldn’t be lost in the shuffle. Here are two:
The first is about the troubling relationship between sex trafficking and the foster care system – a topic addressed by an October 23 hearing in Congress. My guess is that what much of what Americans know of foster care and adoption comes from heartwarming movies like “The Blind Side.” That movie tells the amazing life story of Michael Oher, who started out the son of a drug addicted mother who bounced between foster homes and homelessness before being adopted by the Tuohy family in Memphis, Tennessee, becoming a football standout at the University of Mississippi and a 2009 first round draft pick for the Baltimore Ravens. …
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Story number two: According to a recent report in the Daily Caller, federal agents took a reporter’s personal files during an August raid of her home in Maryland in search of illegal guns.
The journalist, Audrey Hudson, used to write for the Washington Times and is now a freelancer. Department of Homeland Security agents had a search warrant allowing them to look for guns in the home she shares with her husband Paul Flanagan, who unknown to the couple, was prohibited from owning firearms. After the search started, she was asked by one investigator, a former air marshal official, if she was the same journalist who wrote a series of articles critical of air marshals. ...
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