“Rush is just an amazing radio performer. Years ago, I used to listen in the car on my way to reporting gigs, and I’d notice that I disagreed with everything he was saying, yet I not only wanted to keep listening, I actually liked him. That is some chops. You can count on two hands the number of public figures in America who can pull that trick off.” ~Ira Glass, a star of the younger generation of public-radio personalities.
Blackstone’s Commentaries: “The right to self-defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine the right within the narrowest limits possible.” (HT:NRO)
If I ever thought to get a gun
My inner voice would cry out
What do you want with a gun, TJ?
You’d likely shoot your eye out.
Raised so far away from the NRA
That I never touched a rifle
Those semantic fights re: the Bill of Rights
Seemed an academic trifle
But in later life with a home and wife
I began to pay attention
To the need to care and the right to bear
And the framers’ true intention
I know despite good aims there are urban flames
And that firearms could fan them
But do we solve or at all evolve
If we merely try to ban them
Well I had my doubts due to all the shouts
But Scalia I could kiss ‘ya
Because you could sense the difference
Between a gang and a militia
Of course medical marijuana should be legal. For adults, everything should be legal.
Banning drugs certainly hasn’t kept young people from getting them. We can’t even keep these drugs out of prisons. How do we expect to keep them out of America?
While drugs harm many, the drug war’s black market harms more. Legal is better. And most importantly, in a free country, adults should have the right to harm themselves.
~John Stossel’s latest column “Legalize All Drugs“
(ht: CD)
“The problem with science is not science. The problem is people; flawed creatures with limitless egos.”
~C. A. DeVries, PhD, Professor of Chemistry.
“I believe in the free market. You know, the government didn’t switch us from whale oil to the oil found under the ground. The market did that. And the government didn’t make the Prius the hottest selling car in Hollywood. That was the market that did that. In L.A. now, the coolest thing you can drive is a hybrid. Well, if that’s what the free market can do in the most car-crazed culture on Earth, then I trust the free market to solve our energy problems. You know, you know, the market can change the way we think. It can change what we want. Government can’t do that. That’s why the market has always been a better problem-solver than government and it always will be.” Sen. Arnold Vinickho
Nobody likes to listen to you if you are mean. ~Shane Claborne
Technology advances break up monopolies. ~Clark Howard
“Strive to be fair in your private life, them micro. But trying to create fairness on the macro level has the unintended consequence of creating totalitarianism in society.”
“Balance between compassion and standards is the challenge of life. But as we do it, we should lean towards compassion in our micro lives and towards standards in the macro life.”
“Liberty and equality are at odds with each other.”
~D.Prager (a collection of statements from his radio show during May 19-23)
“But a bare majority of this court, not satisfied with the pace of democratic change, now abruptly forestalls that process and substitutes, by judicial fiat, its own social policy views for those expressed by the People themselves. Undeterred by the strong weight of state and federal law and authority, the majority invents a new constitutional right, immune from the ordinary process of legislative consideration. The majority finds that our Constitution suddenly demands no less than a permanent redefinition of marriage, regardless of the popular will….”
~From Justice Baxter’ opinion partially concurring and partially dissenting (p 132).
“There are only two races: the decent and the indecent.” ~Viktor Frankl
“I stumbled upon a mystery without a solution, a mystery so immense that I gave up trying to find an explanation because the whole mystery defied belief. The mystery was the survival of the Jews…. It was this mystery that drew me back to God.” ~Anne Rice (Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, 308-309) (HT:JP)
