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, June 9, 2015

Do you know why conservatives aren’t funny? It’s because liberals have no sense of humor.

And Chris Rock is stupid. m/r

Liberals Have No Sense of Humor | Klavan On The Culture

 By Andrew Klavan On June 7, 2015 

Jon Stewart drops an f-bomb on Dick Cheney, he’s given a mainstream comedy show and put on the cover of magazines. But if anyone makes a joke about Barack Obama, feminism, black cultural dysfunction or anything else the left holds sacred, he’s hounded from pillar to post as racist, sexist, bigoted, etc. The right lacks professional comedians for the same reason mainstream baseball used to lack black ballplayers: We’re not allowed to play. First they keep you out, then they say, “I guess they’re not qualified or there would be more of them!”
Comedians from Jay Leno to Jerry Seinfeld to Chris Rock have announced they don’t even want to perform at American universities anymore. Too PC. Every joke is greeted with an accusation. Rock has said this is because universities have become too “conservative,” but of course that’s exactly wrong. It’s leftism that has transformed the academy from a center of rebellious, libertarian snark, the perfect venue for comedy, to a humorless pit of small-minded victim-mongering. ...
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