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, March 7, 2014

Globaloney and Gasbags: the perfect terms

He is self explanatory-

Globaloney and Gasbags :: SteynOnline

by Mark Steyn  •  Mar 7, 2014
On this week's Hugh Hewitt Show, Hugh and I discussed Obama phone tapping, and Thomas L Friedman phoning it in:
HUGH HEWITT: Here's Thomas Friedman in the New York Times yesterday. "It requires going after the twin pillars of Putin's regime – oil and gas. Just as the oil glut of the 1980s, partly engineered by the Saudis, brought down global oil prices to a level that helped collapse Soviet communism, we could do the same today to Putinism by putting the right long term policies in place. That is by investing in the facilities to liquefy and export our natural gas bounty, provided it is extracted at the highest environmental standards, and making Europe, which gets 30% of its gas from Russia, more dependent on us instead. I'd also raise our gasoline tax, put in place a carbon tax, and a national renewal energy portfolio standard, all of which would also help lower the global oil price.."

MARK STEYN: Right.

HH: "…and make us stronger with cleaner air, less dependence, and more innovation." That, Mark Steyn, close quote, is insane.

MS: Yeah, well, it is insane, but he's the house intellectual of the New York Times, and as always, he wrote his column in the car service taking him to back to the airport from Davos or whatever international conference he was attending. And it bears the usual sort of glib…for a start, this is a country that won't build the Keystone, let the Keystone Pipeline come through from Canada.

HH: Exactly...

MS: How's he going to get all this great American gas over to Europe? Is he going to put that on a container ship? Is the great gas, a lot of it floating above Thomas Friedman's column most of the time, is he going to put that gas on a container ship and ship it to Europe..?
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