Tuesday, 10 June 2014
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‘‘...The nature of the crisis du jour may change, but the solutions always involve higher taxes and more power for the political class... Show me a ‘‘crisis’’ that called for the opposite and I might take it seriously.’’ -
Glenn Reynolds
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Sunday, 08 June 2014
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‘‘...It may be strictly said that one’s love for despotism is in exact proportion to one’s contempt for one’s country.’’
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Sunday, 01 June 2014
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‘‘One of the books my daughter had to read a year ago was Brave New World.
She hated it, and I can understand why. In addition to the fact that it’s really not a very ‘entertaining’ read, it’s hard for anyone who does not have a foundation in understanding the totalitarian systems of the 20th century to get the message.
‘‘And who doesn’t understand the totalitarian systems of the 20th century? Virtually everyone who has been in the education system of the 21st.’’ - ‘‘BurtTC,’’
commenting at Ace
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Friday, 16 May 2014
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‘‘...The demagogues are always out there, ready to spread... poison and destroy the polity, so long as it enhances their power and position.’’ -
Glenn Reynolds[1]
[1] Here concerning racial demagoguery, but IMO applicable far beyond that.
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Sunday, 04 May 2014
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‘‘I always promised myself I wouldn’t become a grumpy old white guy who hates the government, but as time passes, that lifestyle choice just makes sense.’’ -
Scott Adams
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Tuesday, 29 April 2014
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‘‘By reneging on their obligation to foster independence and free inquiry, [the]
privileged bastions [of higher education]
have utterly forfeited the moral authority our society invested in them. The accumulation of repulsive and cowardly episodes... will sooner or later—probably sooner—erode pubic trust to the point that the entire higher educational establishment will implode.’’ -
Roger Kimball
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Thursday, 24 April 2014
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‘‘...Liberals... have grown up in an intellectual environment where the racist/ sexist/ homophobe move is the one winning move, the forensic KO. If you ever watch two liberals argue, you [will soon]
realize that the entire argument is like a judo match, where they circle one another to see who can slap the other one with bigotry first and most devastatingly.’’
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Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Clipfile - April 22, 2014
‘‘All the talk about inequality is basically journalists and academics wondering why they don’t make as much money as the lawyers and investment bankers they went to school with.’’ -
Glenn Reynolds
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Sunday, 20 April 2014
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‘‘...In today’s political clime..., we actually enshrine incapacity as authentic or democratic or of the people or whatever. We dumb down everything for the emotional benefit of the incapable. The whole thrust in America seems to be to lower standards and punish competence and intelligence.’’ -
Fred Reed
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Thursday, 17 April 2014
Clipfile - April 17, 2014
‘‘The obstacles to [immigration]
reform are not bogeymen who want to deport everyone, but the disingenuous who prefer to deport no one. The culprits are not mustachioed villains who want to close the border, but the more sophisticated who want it to stay wide open. And the real reactionaries are not those seeking to make ethnicity incidental to legal immigration, but those who want to ensure that it remains absolutely essential.’’ -
Victor Davis Hanson
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