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, October 18, 2016

Peggy Noonan has always given me a pain in the ass.

Peggy-Dave Brooks-Noonan
To me, she is just a David Brooks in Drag.
Her phony snobbery oozes out from between the lines of her uppity columns. m/r

What’s Wrong With Them? The Misguided Establishmentarian Right

Esther Goldberg  October 17, 2016

The case of Peggy Noonan.

Amongst Republicans there are two kinds of Trump-haters: the never-Trumpers who boast that they’ll never support him, and the non-never-Trumpers who say they’ll do so, but only by holding their noses. By their timidity, the latter reveal the tragic flaw that has prevented Republicans from winning elections. They’ll advance their arguments in favor of the Trump issues, and then go on to express their contempt for the man who had the courage to articulate them. Winners don’t do this sort of equivocating. ...

Noonan echoes Pauline Kael here:
Miss Noonan turns next to the “allegations” of sexual abuse by the Clintons’ victims, and again she establishes an equivalency between Hillary and Trump — all of the victims must be believed:
We cannot know for certain what is true, but my experience in such matters is that when a woman makes such a charge she is telling the truth. In a lifetime of fairly wide acquaintance, I’ve not known a woman to lie about sexual misbehavior or assault.
It’s extraordinary that, with all of the empirical research on faux sexual abuse accusations, Miss Noonan chooses to look only to the experience of herself and her friends. Based on her own experience, the Trump and Clinton accusers have equal credibility. There’s no need to examine individual cases.
...
This great article defines the old GOP right here:
So here we come to the heart of the matter. The establishment Right has always felt insecure in the face of the more polished, witty, cosmopolitan Left. It is they who get the best tables at Le Cirque, they who get to hobnob with glamorous movie stars and sports figures. It is they who get to look down on conservatives simply on account of what they believe.

-go to read the full fine article at the link above-


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