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, May 31, 2016

One Suspects there is more than meets the eye, but as usual it's less.

It seems to be just pettiness as their predictions get swallowed up by Trumps weekly progress. 
What exactly is their "mystical" definition of "Conservative" anyway? m/r

Bill Kristol promises an ‘impressive’ independent candidate to run against Trump


By Thomas Lifson  May 30, 2016
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Kristol ignores the Libertarian Party, which just nominated two former GOP governors, Gary Johnson and William Weld, and which is currently polling around 10% support in this year of dissatisfaction with the major party nominees.  Of course, Kristol has been a backer of active U.S. intervention overseas a number of times, while Libertarians tend to take a hands-off policy toward military action abroad.
In fact, there seems very little practical chance for such a candidacy to succeed.  Richard Baehr emails and asks, “What exactly is the point of having another candidate who will not be on the ballot everywhere, and who will win no states?”
Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal is upfront about his point:
I want to make a vote to make sure that [Trump] has  — that he is the biggest loser in presidential history since, I don’t know, Alf Landon or going back further[.]
George Will is another member of the spurned lover faction, seeking to punish voters for forsaking the intellectual class of conservatives:
 Were [Trump] to be nominated, conservatives would have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states — condign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nation’s civic life. Second, conservatives can try to save from the anti-Trump undertow as many senators, representatives, governors and state legislators as possible.

For the moment, at least, Kristol is not embracing the Valhalla version of conservative purity.  But the idea of an independent candidate not even on the ballot in major states winning is a fantasy.  Kristol, contra Trump, is no dummy.  But he does not seem to be thinking clearly.
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