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, October 30, 2015

CNBC is the Anti-Capitalist "Business" Cable News, So Why Expect them to be Fair to Capitalists?

They are consistently editorially critical of American Business; they are News you can't use! m/r

  The response of Ted Cruz to a loaded question from co-moderator Quintanilla stole the show. ...
The senator let Quintanilla have it. “The questions that have been asked
so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust
the media,” he said to loud applause. He continued:

This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions -- "Donald
 Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?"
 "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why
 don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about
 talking about the substantive issues the people care about?
CNBC's Televised Show Trial | Frontpage Mag

     October 30, 2015   Matthew Vadum


GOP candidates face a firing squad manned by leftist journalists.

 
The Republican presidential candidates' debate on CNBC wasn't so much a debate as it was a firing squad manned by left-leaning journalists.

Over and over journalistic equivalents of, "When did you stop beating your wife?" were asked of the candidates.

The reporter-moderators weren’t just asking questions: they were prosecuting the candidates at a televised show trial. Personal attacks were disguised as questions. (Here is a transcript of the at times
boisterous 10-way main debate, along with a transcript of the four-way undercard debate that preceded it.)

There was no shortage of conservative pundits who likened the televised proceedings to a canned hunt after a three-member panel of CNBC personalities spent two hours hurling loaded questions that painted the Republicans as absurd caricatures unworthy of being taken seriously.

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