We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.~Barack Obama, Oct. 30, 2008The Power of the Eternal Lie If hindsight is always 20/20, then all but the most willfully ignorant and obtuse among us must realize by now what Obama meant five days before he would be elected president of the […]
Stand by your principles and be comfortable with confrontation. So few people are, so when the people with the red tape come, it becomes a negotiation.~ CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally […]
Men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.~ AristotleCollective schools were created for the children generated by Fourier’s Proto-Communists; they could be taught more sophisticated notions of what was right and wrong; they would be separated from antiquated notions of morality. ~ Dr. Paul Kengor Prologue to a Proto-Communist Dystopia My colleague […]
We expect Iran will spend some of new money on military, maybe on terror. ~ Susan Rice, National Security AdvisorPrologue to Israel’s Death Warrant President Barack Obama’s nuclear treaty with Iran is nothing less than naked treason against our most beloved and faithful ally, the Nation of Israel. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) recently stated that […]
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, […]
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 Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.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 […]
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, and business strategies—in order words, […]
“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 […]
50 years of Medicare-Medicaid slavery
We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism, until they suddenly awake to find they have communism.~ Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev … Communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism by voting. It’s the same difference between murder […]
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