I am elbow-deep in a task that’s been building for months: the re-org of my home office. So I shan’t have anything satisfying to read hear today. Fortunately, Victor Davis Hanson has plenty: Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the… Read More Shred Party
Epic. (h/t Instapundit) As I said, it’s not about health. If it was, no one would mention the cost of obesity. It’s an issue only because the rest of us have to pay for it? If that’s the case, then there’s no end to the restrictions we can conjure up and impose with equal parts… Read More Lileks Roasts Bloomberg, and All His Flying Monkeys, Too.
Memeorandum links a long essay by Peter Wehner in Commentary, discussing the liberal explanations for “the unexpectedly shovel-ready high-speed intercontinental 57-state train wreck that is the Obama administration” (is that what they call a meme aggregation?). According to Wehner, they are as follows:
They are now offering plea deals for movie rights. This is what happens when he state has no limits on its sphere of action. It can and will do everything.
Glenn Reynolds’ column on the Obamacare arguments hits on an oft-ignored theme: The subjects entrusted to the federal government by the Constitution — those largely “external” powers — simply don’t lend themselves to corruption. On the other hand, when the government lays a heavy regulatory hand on almost every business and industry, the temptation for… Read More The Bigger the Government Is, the More Corrupt
…and according to Walter Russel Mead, even Democrats are eventually going to have to embrace this reality: Republicans and anti-blue statists will want to fix this because bad government is big government and takes a terrible toll on the economy (cumbersome procedures, bad decisions, a large and expensive staff). But smart proponents of a strong… Read More The Debt Can’t Go On Forever…
So says John Stossel at Reason: (h/t Insty) We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many rules that legal specialists can’t keep up. Criminal lawyers call the rules “incomprehensible.” They are. They are also “uncountable.” Congress has created so many criminal offenses… Read More You Don’t Know What the Law is…
Over at Other McCain, Smitty draws on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to discuss the blunt truth that the collective has no soul, and indeed must destroy the souls of individuals in order to perpetuate itself. So that plane of pyramids, as the society reproduces, must be trained to halt their growth at the lowest, fleshy… Read More Maslow and the Hierarchies
The goose-stepping little martinet who took away a preschoolers’ lunch has been suspended. Or, an employee has been punished for following orders. The mother of the 4-year-old girl whose turkey sandwich was replaced by chicken nuggets says the teacher is not to blame and shouldn’t be punished. “We are concerned for Ms. Maynor [the teacher]… Read More The Scandal Isn’t Over Until the Scapegoat is Driven Off…
In New York State, they pretend that IOU’s are money, and borrow pretend money from them. It’s important to understand that they can’t not do this. They have gleefully incurred obligations that they know they cannot pay. Because the failure to pay is a cause for more money to be put into their pockets. So… Read More We Are Being Governed By Thieves
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