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

Saturday, November 12, 2016

The Best Thing ... is that President-elect Trump Never Held Public Office!

It would have screwed him up! 

Maybe he can successfully appoint a new Supreme Court Justice who has never been a lawyer or a judge. One can dream. m/r

Yes, Trump Can Win — Revisited

Jeffrey Lord  November 11, 2016


What was true in 1980 was true today.

In the Age of Google and links there isn’t much call to rerun an old article.
But there’s always an exception to the rule, and the week that Donald Trump has been elected to be the 45th President of the United States is surely that moment.
Back there in the mists of time, to be precise on July 14, 2015, I wrote the article below. The headline: “Yes, Trump Can Win.” It began with these two sentences:
The media assures: Donald Trump can’t possibly win.
The GOP Establishment assures: Donald Trump can’t possibly win.
And so they did assure us — then and right up until sometime Tuesday night. When they were both shocked to the core of their souls at the final results.
I first began writing about Donald Trump as a potential president in June of 2013, over three years ago in a piece titled “Never Ignore Donald Trump.” From time to time I followed up, as here in October 2013 with “Donald Trump: America’s Entrepreneur.”
As can be seen in the piece below there were a lot of people who thought the idea of a Trump presidential run was insanity if not inanity. Not mentioned in the 2015 article was this quote on Fox News from the Washington Post conservative columnist George Will, a quote that is memorable indeed. Sitting on a panel for Bret Baier’s show, panelists were asked who they would bet on in the show’s “Candidate Casino” for 2016. Replied Will: “One dollar on Donald Trump in the hope that he will be tempted to run, be predictably shellacked, and we will be spared evermore this quadrennial charade of his.” Doubtless President-elect Trump will savor that one.

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