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4-4 Tie deconstructs Supreme Court oligarchy
A black drape has been placed on the chair of Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. ~ Jefferson letter to Wm. Jarvis (1820) Jordan Weissmann, a fine […]
Trump: Cruz + C.J. John Roberts = Obamacare
Trump blames Ted Cruz for picking Chief Justice Roberts who gave U.S. Obamacare… TWICE! It [Obamacare] would have been dead if we had a different justice on the United States Supreme Court – put there by him [Cruz]. ~ Trump If a judge can interpret the Constitution or laws to mean something obviously not intended […]
Trump exposes “conservative” apparatchiks
Purists vs. Pragmatists: Adapt or Die… You can’t win a general election with a purist philosophy. ~ Dr. Michael Savage, Radio Host (Jan. 28, 2016) One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people – I categorize them as life’s losers – who get their sense […]
Trump rising: National Review neocons ranting
Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones. ~ National Review Manifesto against Trump NRO endorsed Romney [2008] and McCain [2010] and gave us George W. Bush’s wars, huge deficits, amnesty, bailouts. They helped create Trump’s […]
Boycott holocaust Democrat self-righteousness
What’s the difference? – The uneducated people in picture #1 know they are slaves, yet yearn to be free. The miseducated people in picture #2 think they are free, but are mere House slaves with nicer clothes. *N.B.: What’s the difference in Slavemaster’s subsidized housing (picture #1) vs. FDR/LBJ/Obama’s ‘Ghetto Projects’ variety? Both housing options […]
Vladimir Putin: More like Reagan than Obama
Peace through strength. Trust but verify. ~ Reagan We are going to pursue terrorists everywhere. If they are in the airport, we will pursue them in the airport. And if we capture them in the toilet, then we will waste them in the outhouse. … The issue has been resolved once and for all. ~ […]
Who is Donald ‘John Galt’ Trump?
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. ~ Ayn Rand Book cover, The Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand. Male figure derivative of the Greek god Prometheus who witnessed the pathetic estate of primitive Mankind freezing on an ice planet – took pity, […]
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