“‘Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.’ We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections. If everything that is wrong with the world becomes a reason to turn more power over to some political savior, then freedom is going to erode away…. Ultimately, our choice [...]
Archive for August, 2009
12 Aug
Calling All Informants
“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” –Alexander Hamilton ObamaCare opponents beware Calling All Informants The White House this week took to quoting John Adams in an effort to “debunk” criticism of and opposition to [...]
11 Aug
Why Obama May Fail
“For years, Democratic politicians said the health-care problem was about ’47 million uninsured Americans.’ Whatever the merits, many people were willing to do something for those with no health insurance. Suddenly, these voters discovered that ObamaCare is about them. When did that happen? Every policy wonk in America may have known this was always an [...]
11 Aug
More power, more bureaucracy, etc.
“The intellectual establishment [is] so busy demanding more power for government, more bureaucracy, regulation, spending and — oh, yes — more and more taxes, they forgot all about the secret of America’s success — opportunity for people, for all the people. … Will we heed the pessimists’ agenda of higher taxes, more bureaucracy, and a [...]
11 Aug
Go Ahead and Report Me — I’ll Shout Louder
via: foxnews So what has the White House told supporters to do when you run across those who spread “disinformation” about the new attempt by the Obama administration to install the anti-competitive practices of a “public option” into a federalized universal health care initiative? Report them. Whether its communicated through e-mail, web sites, blogs, or [...]
10 Aug
‘You Are Terrifying Us’
“On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?” –Thomas Jefferson The message of the ObamaCare protests RE: THE LEFT “What has been most unsettling is [...]
6 Aug
Kucinich: the Federal Reserve is paying banks NOT to make loans to struggling Americans!
U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio, 10th District) questions Neil M. Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, about interest payments made to banks that keep their TARP funds and other government (taxpayer) bailout money with the Federal Reserve, instead of [...]
6 Aug
Rahm’s Brother Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel: The Death Czar
via: rightsoup Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel and Obama’s Health Policy Adviser, announced a new “Complete Lives System” for selecting which sections of the population should be killed, in his article “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions.”. His writings were published Jan. 31, 2009 in the British medical journal Lancet…11 days after [...]
6 Aug
The Best of This Week’s Opinion:
On ObamaCare: Utopia Versus Freedom by Thomas Sowell Impossible Promises by John Stossel Health Politics Quagmire by Tony Blankley Sebelius: Don’t Sweat the Details by Cal Thomas Hazardous to America’s Health by Debra Saunders Fat Load by Jacob Sullum Tea Party-Bashers Gone Wild by Michelle Malkin The Villains of Health Care by Paul Greenberg On [...]
