Quote of The Day from Ronald Reagan

Today would have been the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan, President. Lord, I do miss the man. He had a capacity, not unique but rare, for expressing with terrible clarity the actual situation. And there are records of this. He came to office at a time in many respects similar to ours, and left the nation in better shape than he found it.

Try this one.

"The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?"

--Ronald Wilson Reagan, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

Quote Of The Day

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people!

- Patrick Henry:

Quote of the Day

"Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."

- John Adams

Why Work?

Check out something from Mark Levin.
You won't like it, but it does explain the "why" of some things going on that we all know are not good for anyone involved.

Today's Quotes

Want to see what those who feel themselves to be "the superior man" have in mind for the rest of us? Here are some examples.

The only way of saving the world may be for industrial civilization to collapse, deliberately seek poverty, and set levels of mortality.”

- Maurice Strong, Canadian revolutionary, industrialist, government insider, self-proclaimed socialist and the principal power behind the U.N., I.P.C.C. and a founding father of the Ecochondriac movement, which his statements expose as a mere ruse for Western destruction. (now living in Red China running from his role in Saddam’s “Oil For Food” payoff)

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth
 as a killer virus to lower human population levels."


- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund


"The extinction of the human species may not
 only be inevitable but a good thing."


- Christopher Manes, Earth First!


Quote of the Day -- 29 November 2010

“He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.”

Samuel Adams -

Today's Winner

sometimes it is hard to comprehend just how badly screwed up things have become. And then, to realize that we have helped, via taxes, to finance the screwing-up, is to pour salt in the wounds still being opened.
the link above, in the title here, deals with the use of taxpayer dollars to finance lawsuits against the nation by all sorts of little tinpot fascisti, tree-huggers prominent among them.
But there is more, far more.
a hat tip on this to an article on Richard Ferndandez' great "Belmont Club' section of Pajamas Media, an article that gets into the matter of bureaucracy in general and federal government bureaucracy in particular, and dovetails that with the continuing reverberations from the Ruling Class essay that has gone viral. And a second hat tip to a poster whose contribution included a listing of some of the damage done by bureaucracies in general, not just at the federal level. Follow those links, and the discussion under the original posting, and wonder if the Washington's of the day could ever forgive us.