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Envy is worse than Greed

The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is “an extraordinary amount of money” for Main Street, “there are some baseball players who are making more than that and don’t get to the World Series either, so I’m shocked by that as well.”
(At least people who are [...]

Sarah Palin: Wrong Prescription for America?
by Larry Elder

“Sarah Palin, do you guys really like her?”
My dad’s doctor asked me this a couple of weeks ago. His smile seemed to shout, “Are you guys crazy?” I had taken my 94-year-old Republican father to see him several times, but politics never came up. Did the doc really [...]

deterrence

“The General Assembly today adopted… a moratorium on executions to be established in all States that still maintain the death penalty…” United Nations.
“From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death… I feel… obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.”  Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, appointed [...]

G. K. Chesterton once observed that in the past, humility used to settle on the organ of ambition.  You were meant to doubt yourself, but not the truth.
Today, however, he said that humility has moved to the organ of conviction.  You’re expected to be sure of yourself, but to doubt the truth.
Arrogance and [...]

underdog

One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the [...]

brilliant!

What did we do, back during the years when most Americans had no medical insurance? I did what most people did. I depended on a “single payer”– myself. When I didn’t have the money, I paid off my medical bills in installments. The birth of my first child was not covered by medical insurance. I [...]

wednesday roundup

“The Rule of Law” assumes that man is fallible.  “The Rule of Man” assumes some men are infallible.
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Obama’s science czar suggested compulsory abortion, sterilization
Internet reports are now circulating that Obama’s Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren, penned a 1977 book that approved of and recommended…
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I BLAME GLOBAL WARMING. Er, [...]

use words wisely

“[T]hat [Ronald] Reagan used his rhetorical skills to shine light on truths and fundamental facts. Obama uses his rhetorical skills to hide from fundamental facts.”

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