“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim [...]
Archive for July, 2010
26 Jul
Open Conspiracy Is No Longer Merely Ajar
“Newspapers … serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.” –Thomas Jefferson Leftmedia circle the wagons for Obama “The Journolist has started to leak like an overripe diaper. Just in case you’ve been living in a cave, or if you only get your news from MSNBC, here’s the story. A young blogger, Ezra [...]
26 Jul
Comic from 1934: “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”
Remember the adage: “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”
19 Jul
Berwick: Bigger Than Kagan
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” –Thomas Jefferson Dr. Donald Berwick, the new Medicare czar “Barack Obama’s incredible ‘recess appointment’ of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably [...]
12 Jul
The Founders’ Vision Versus Ours
By Walter E. Williams (Archive) “How might our founders have commented about [the] U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding our rights to keep and bear arms? Justice Samuel Alito, in writing the majority opinion, said, ‘Individual self-defense is the central component of the Second Amendment.’ The founders would have responded ‘Balderdash!’ Jefferson said, ‘What country can [...]
12 Jul
How to know that your society is doomed:
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get [...]
12 Jul
Restore Economic Liberty
“Today, Americans are stifled by big government, smothered by over-regulation, and taxed to death. Our Founding Fathers who risked everything they had — their fortunes, their families, their lives — to secure freedom for us would not recognize our current economic reality as anything even close to the economic liberty they worked so hard to [...]
12 Jul
Barack Obama Cannot, Will Not, Does Not Want To ‘Create Jobs’
“[T]o ascribe the word ‘sector’ to the limitless Unconstitutional and unnecessary public ‘businesses’ is pure subterfuge. The plunder sector is the only accurate title for what the government does outside its strict Constitutional scope. Any and all government ‘stimulus’ retards growth because it removes current and future wealth from its producers and gives it to [...]
12 Jul
Open-Borders DOJ vs. America
“Attorney General Eric Holder and the rest of the open-borders DOJ team have invoked a ‘preemption’ doctrine based on the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause to attack Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration measure and oppose local and state enforcement of federal immigration laws. Never mind that the Arizona law was drafted scrupulously to comply with all federal statutes [...]
12 Jul
Spies Like Us
“I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home.” –George Washington Anna Chapman — one of the Russian spies arrested by the FBI “When the FBI announced [...]
