Quote of the Day

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

-- Edmund Burke

Sobering Reality

This gets a tip o' the hat to the incomparable Jerry Pournelle, whose site linked to the article.

Despair is a Sin. But ....

One stark and sobering way to frame the crisis is this: if the United States government were to nationalize (in other words, steal) every penny of private wealth accumulated by America’s citizens since the nation’s founding 235 years ago, the government would remain totally bankrupt.

And if that doesn't make you pause, I don't know what will.

Various Outrages for the Day

I haven't really been keeping up on this as well as intended. Not for lack of material, certainly.

Let's see. Under the heading of "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande", we have the story of a person arrested for rape. After having been deported NINE TIMES. I think it is fair to say that this guy has no intention whatsoever of obeying the law or of respecting the territory of the United States. Being deported at all is an accomplishment these days, given the aroma of criminal nonfeasance in office that seems to pervade. Being deported that often is remarkable. As I said, obviously he didn't learn the first 9 times, I doubt that he will learn ever. Hang him. Rape is one of those crimes that, historically, earned the death penalty anyway. Hang him. And there is room on the gibbet for his apologists and enablers.

Then, under the heading of manifestly criminal non-feasance in office, we have the announcement that those persons at the federal level whose sworn duty is to apprehend and remove illegal aliens may refuse to process those illegals apprehended in Arizona. Read it here.

It is a bit funny to have it revealed that most of the high and mighty who have been criticizing the Arizona law have never bothered to read it. Or who have ignored the fact that it essentially is a duplicate of the federal law. Or that it is largely matched by a long-standing law in California. It is just that enforcement has been ignored, by all political parties. A funny take on the matter is up on YouTube, but you can also find it here.

Today's Quote

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Marcus Cicero

PSALM 2010

PSALM 2010

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Quote of the Day

"A nation trying to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle"

-- Winston Churchill

Today's Quotes 3 April 2010

"Always love your country -- but never trust your government."
-- Robert Novak

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

... and .....

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own -- that thing is the preservation of their own liberties and institutions.

--- Abraham Lincoln