Don’t set out to raze all shrines – you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity – and the shrines are razed.~ Ellsworth Toohey If physical slavery is repulsive, how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit? ~ Howard Roark Prologue to a Conservative Utopia The Fountainhead is a 1949 American film based on […]
Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete. ~ Narrator Rod Sterling Prologue to an Obsolete Man I have always […]
Lex iniusta non est lex (Latin: An unjust law is no law at all). ~St. Thomas Aquinas No human society has ever been able to maintain both order and freedom, both cohesiveness and liberty apart from the moral precepts of the Christian Religion. Should our Republic ever forget this fundamental precept of governance, we will […]
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. ~ Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison (1803) 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 […]
Totalitarian movements that envisioned nothing less than the transformation of human nature were inspired by that book [Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto]. ~ Dr. Paul Kengor My friend and colleague, Dr. Paul Kengor, has just written another blockbuster, must-read book, Takedown: From the Communists to Progressives, How the Left has Sabotaged Family and Marriage (WND Books, […]
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Grant them eternal rest, Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them. ~ Requiem Mass, Introit Prologue to Goethe’s Journey In thinking about the horrible tragedy in Charleston, SC last week and what music would be appropriate to post for my grieving Facebook friends. I […]
Ellis Washington Ellis Washington June 20, 2015 Dinesh D’Souza has a new book out, America: Imagine a World Without Her, that will be the basis of a film of the same name that builds upon his highly successful, 2016 Obama’s America. D’Souza strives to challenge the progressive narrative that America is an evil, colonialist, plundering, […]
o no one will we sell [no slavery], to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice. ~ Magna Carta In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. ~ Jefferson Prologue to the forgotten Magna […]
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas: he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on […]
When Machiavelli Comes to Town: The Dangers of Opportunistic Consulting
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” ~ Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532) “Unencumbered by government oversight, McKinsey is accountable only to its clients, who expect that their vulnerabilities, mistakes, […]
“The corruption, crime, and incompetence of the D.C. government has been an embarrassment to our nation’s capital for decades. It is long past time that Congress restored the honor and integrity of George Washington to the beautiful city which bears his name.” ~ Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), speaking on the BOWSER Act “It is […]
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling against “Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule” Safeguards Meritocracy Over Mediocrity
“The evidence presented by Nasdaq in its rule proposal, contrary to its claims, does not show that board diversity provides better returns for shareholders.” ~Excerpt from a Manhattan Institute led amicus curiae brief in the case of Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment vs. SEC. “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the […]
Smile for me, Camille Cosby
Camille Cosby is a proud, dignified but stubborn woman. You can say that she’s standing by her husband, but really, the more people stand against him, the more she perceives it as an affront to her and all that she’s done to make him a star. ~Anonymous friend The opposite of love is not hate, […]
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