“If it please God to give your enemies another such victory, they are ruined.” ~ French commander Claude de Villars to King Louis XIV after the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709 2016 is likely to go down in history as the year two corrupt despots fought over control of the remnants of a once great…
Justice, n. Proper administration of laws. In jurisprudence, the constant and perpetual disposition of legal matters or disputes to render every man his due.” ~ Black’s Law Dictionary I have been giving a great deal of consideration to the riots in Charlotte, following on the heels of yet another shooting of a black man…
Free speech according to the US Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The Progressive left…
You are on the 5th floor of a building and the bottom three floors are on fire and the fourth is beginning to smoulder. The streets to the building are blocked and no help can reach you in time. On the floor with you are Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Each…
I guess it was predictable but I still find it somewhat unbelievable how far the tortured justifications go for Trump’s “paid maternity leave” – but these defenses are helpful because they do reveal how far to the left the Trump GOP really has moved. Months ago, I proposed that for every “conservative” point in Trump’s…
Never forget.
Just as falling leaves presage the autumnal season, wealthy progressives falling for progressive Democrats are the bellwether of the quadrennial election season. Microsolutions founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban [an earlier version of this post identified Cuban as the Dell founder, he was not – that was Michael Dell- ed]. joins Warren Buffet in hearting…
cor·rup·tion kəˈrəpSH(ə)n/ noun 1. dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery. “the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places” synonyms: dishonesty, unscrupulousness, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, crime, criminality, wrongdoing; More 2. the process by which something, typically a word or expression, is changed from its original use or meaning…
“The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in ‘On Liberty’…The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual’s own good.” ~ Milton Friedman…
The classic Washington “Friday data dump” of the FBI’s notes from the Hillary Clinton interview reveals more than just what we already knew. Whether you believe Mrs. Clinton is a liar or in some way a mental defective (or both), the interview substantiates that, yes, she did in fact put national security at risk and…
“There is, indeed, as he says elsewhere, “an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.” To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints which control their behavior as individuals within the group.” ~…
For those out there who don’t know who Rodney Dangerfield was, download or go to Netflix and watch the 1980 movie “Caddyshack”. Dangerfield was a hilarious stand-up comedian, famous for his self-deprecating one liners like this one: “When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my…
The Rio Norte Line 
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