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

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Do All My Most Admired Icons of Conservative Thought Have Feet-of-Clay?

The ivory tower must be filled with carbon monoxide. There is a mass hysteria akin to mass suicide for their holding of crosses and denouncing Trump as Lucifer incarnate. 
The #neverTrump faithful have fallen prey to their own brand of sanctimony. The old boy high priests will never allow their privileged shell to be cracked, no matter how weak its encasement. m/r

 Meet the Rt. Rev. Charles Murray and the holy Establishmentarians.

 May 27, 2016  by Esther  Goldberg

In a remarkable essay, Charles Murray adumbrates the tenets of a new religion which might be called the Church of Conservatism. The theology could be fleshed out a bit, but for now here is what we may infer from what Mr. Murray tells us.
The new church has a high priesthood, whom Mr. Murray label Establishmentarians. Its members are a select group, “the tiny fraction of the population that deals professionally in public policy from the right.” Only they are permitted to enter the inner sanctum of the Church, the Holy of Holies, wherein is kept the Book of the True Conservative, which contains the principles of the new religion. The priesthood is given the keys to the kingdom, the right to say who is and who is not a conservative, the right to sanctify and the power to anathemize.
A fundamental dogma of the Church is that Donald Trump is evil. Not that his views are all bad. Some might in fact be socially beneficial. No, Trump is evil in his essence, like Satan, if you will. And he must be denounced as such by all Establishmentarians, and his influence exorcised wherever it might be found amongst the erring members of the Church.
Many of the Church’s priests are “columnists, media pundits, public intellectuals and politicians” whose role is to preach about the application of the principles of True Conservatism to public policy and good government. The authentic Priests have already identified themselves publicly as #NeverTrump, meaning that there is no way in Hell that they will ever cast a vote for Trump.

There is no hatred like an odium theologicum, said John Stuart Mill, and Murray reserves all his powers of vituperation for the heretical followers of Mr. Trump.

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