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

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Some of my best friends are Liberal Journalist, but ...

Was there a minimum token quota requirement?
Do you want evidence that some Liberal Journalists (the one who made this proposal) think as Hitler and Stalin thought. m/r

Liberal Journalist: Make Judges Prove They Have Minority Friends | National Review Online

By AUGUST 19, 2014 

Keli Goff suggests that judges’ social circles be vetted “before putting them on the bench.” 

A prominent liberal journalist has suggested that potential judges should have to “prove” they have close friends who are minorities before they are placed “on the bench.”
Keli Goff’s column on the subject, titled “Before Putting Judges on the Bench, Make Them Prove They Have a Diverse Set of Friends,” appeared in the Root.
Goff said that a vetting potential judges’ friend groups would be a better way to determine eligibility than vetting past writings.
“So instead of trying to decode what someone meant when she made a comment about a particular civil rights case, perhaps we should ask more pointed questions, like, ‘How many people of color do you know and know well; how do you know them; and, perhaps most important, are your opinions of them generally positive or negative?’” Goff wrote. …
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