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

Monday, July 20, 2015

Americans are Fed-Up with the Fed and all the Political and Press Establishment

Trump rings true with Americans who are sick and tired of being treated as subjects by the political class! 
McCain has been less than stellar himself before and after his period as POW. m/r

Donald Trump -- His Supporters Are Right to Be Angry | National Review Online

by IAN TUTTLE July 20, 2015 

 For a 78-year-old elder statesman, John McCain seems at times not to have advanced beyond the second grade. Two years ago, McCain labeled Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Justin Amash “wacko birds” for their aggressive opposition to CIA director John Brennan, then in the nomination process. Senate decorum has slackened in recent years, but surely name-calling is still to be reserved for members of the opposite party.

Now the “crazies” are the approximately 5,000 people who showed up to hear Donald Trump speak about illegal immigration and border security. It’s that comment from McCain that prompted Donald Trump to suggest, at this weekend’s Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, that the Vietnam POW-turned–​Arizona senator is considered a war hero “because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” 

Trump’s comment — outrageous, classless, wrong — is getting all the attention (the way The Donald likes it, of course), but spare a moment for Senator McCain, who is, not for the first time, marvelously wrong, too.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421407/donald-trump-republican-party-anger
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