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

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Lefty "Fact Checking" is nothing but Democrat Lies

Fathead Candy Crowley set the im-moderator's precedent. m/r

Lester Holt says stop and frisk is unconstitutional, but it's not!


By Peter Skurkiss  October 1, 2016

In the recently concluded presidential debate, Donald Trump said Chicago's soaring murder rate could be cut by implementing a stop and frisk policy and that such a policy did wonders to reduce New York City's crime rate.  Thereupon, debate moderator and liberal media fact-checker Lester Holt interjected and informed the 100 million viewers watching the debate that stop and frisk is unconstitutional.
Sorry, but the Holt was wrong.
"Candy" Holt
To begin with, Trump was correct in noting that stop and frisk was effective in reducing crime, particularly violent gun-related crime in New York City.  Looking at the evidence, former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani claims that this policy played a major role in reducing crime in the Big Apple by 85% from 1994 to 2014.  As Giuliani says, stop and frisk helped transform New York from being the crime capital of America to one of the safest cities in the country.  And since six out of ten murder victims in New York tend to be black, stop and frisk saved the lives thousands of African-Americans.
As to the constitutionality of stop and frisk, as Rudy Giuliani aptly points out:
Stop and frisk is based on an 8-1 decision by the Supreme Court, Terry v. Ohio. ...
-got to links-


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