Interests and irritations to a guy on a red horse.
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
Aside from the ongoing assault by Hurricane Irma, today is also
the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11th 2001 attacks on America,
and the fifth anniversary of the September 11th 2012 attacks on the
American diplomatic facilities in Benghazi. Later today I'll be hosting
another live audio edition of our Clubland Q&A, taking questions
from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet - at 4pm Monday US
Eastern Time (see below for other times). I expect both Irma, Benghazi
and 9/11 to crop up, but you're free to raise any other subjects, too.
Here, though, we're focusing on Benghazi:
In Sir Henry Wotton's famous formulation, an ambassador is a man sent
to lie abroad for the good of his country. In the case of Susan Rice, a
UN ambassador is a broad sent to lie to her country for the good of her
man — President Obama. Happily, it worked. Nine months after going on
five Sunday talk-shows and pinning Benghazi on some unseen YouTube
video, Miss Rice was promoted to National Security Advisor. The
Administration's designated fall-guy, the director of that unseen video,
was thrown in jail for a year, and now lives in a homeless shelter.
My own view of Benghazi has been consistent since my column of
September 14th 2012, three days after the attack and two days before
Susan Rice peddled to the nation an agreed story she and the President
and the Secretary of State knew was utterly false. ...
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