Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Mid-term Elections

Beyond the soaring debt, health care, earmarks and bail outs, what motivated the American electorate on Tuesday, November 2, 2010:

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Theodore Dalrymple


Anti-Semitism, it has often been said, is the socialism of fools. I would put things another way: socialism is the anti-Semitism of intellectuals.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Rand Paul

Rand Paul wants to abolish the Fed. That's simply outlandish. But wanting to spend trillions upon trillions of dollars that no one will get around to actually earning until about a century and a half from now, what's that? Why, that's mainstream economics! Sure it is, but sometimes the mainstream goes straight over the falls, and that's your great, great grandkids, folks, there in the canoe.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Douglas Wilson


Once we decide that there is no God above the king, the king becomes God. Once we decide there is no "highest authority" above the state, the state becomes the highest authority.

This is why it is the natural impulse for secularists to grow the state.