There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. Benjamin Disraeli Patricia McCarthy wrote an interesting piece in American Thinker that is absolutely spot-on: Here’s the link: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/liz_cheneys_and_the_rinos_betrayal.html And here’s Patricia: Well, now we know for sure that the bulk ofContinue reading “Government of the Swamp, by the Swamp, for the Swamp, Shall Not Perish From the Earth.”
Category Archives: Liberty
Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Per Epoch Times: Newly released FBI background check data from January shows Americans are buying guns at a “blistering pace,” a firearms expert said. “That’s undoubtedly connected to President Joe Biden’s plans to attack the firearm industry by undoing and rewriting regulations and executive actions to target the firearm industry,” Mark Olivia, director of public affairs at the NationalContinue reading “Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money”
Z Man on Oligrachy and the Theory of Egalitarian Collectivism
The nation-state was the recognition that human identity groups were the basis of human organization. A stable country like Great Britain had a common language and history. Identity groups like Welsh and English were sublimated to the British identity. Even so, they had their own cultural spheres that were tolerated and respected by the whole.Continue reading “Z Man on Oligrachy and the Theory of Egalitarian Collectivism”
OBEY!
In today’s WSJ Op-Ed, Ryan T. Anderson lays out the Resistance to Federal oppression: President Biden’s pledge to heal and unify seems to mean giving the far left everything it demands in the culture wars. Conservatives therefore must resist. Yet in doing so we must avoid the trap of framing every debate as if itContinue reading “OBEY!”
The Founders’ View
James Madison: I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. (T)he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powersContinue reading “The Founders’ View”
In a Paranoid Nation, “Treason” Is Everywhere
James Brevard: In a free society, peaceful citizens deserve the legal benefit of the doubt. In an age where government agents have endlessly intruded onto people’s land and into their emails, citizens should not be scourged for transgressing unknown or unmarked federal boundaries. There are enough real criminals in this nation that federal prosecutors don’tContinue reading “In a Paranoid Nation, “Treason” Is Everywhere”
Apocalypse Now
“I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.” — Captain Willard, “Apocalypse Now“ Z-Man in Taki: The grandees of official Washington, of course, will be celebrating. Their long nightmare has finally come to an end. Donald Trump has been evicted from their presence. For four long years—in defense of ourContinue reading “Apocalypse Now”
Democrats on Protests
Martin Luther King A riot is the language of the unheard. Vice President Hubert Humphrey if I were in those conditions… I have enough spark left in me to lead a mighty good revolt under those conditions. Adlai Stevenson In the great struggle to advance civil and human rights, even a jail sentence is noContinue reading “Democrats on Protests”
$51 Billion Lost in 2 Days
The market loss from the Trump ban and the user cancellations “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.” George Orwell, “1984” https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-facebook-51-billion-combined-market-value-erased-since-trump-ban_3656442.html
What Does Not Kill Us ….
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” George Orwell, “1984”
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