“I am tired of my government adjusting its policies in... inane attempts to placate the triggers of rage among unstable people -- as if it’s our fault for provoking them.” - Jim Geraghty (via Andy)

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“In order for a man to love his country, his country ought to be lovely.” - Jerry Pournelle, reflecting on our latest “patriots”-working-for- the- Department-of-Homeland-Security outrage.

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“I don’t want elites setting the rules, because when you look at your elites, they’re not the kind of wise men that they pass themselves off as.” - Mark Steyn

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“Does the fact that we no longer declare any sort of proper war have any impact on the fact that we never get around to peace, either?” - Smitty, at TOM

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“No disaster is complete without something stupid happening in California.” - J.Greely commenting at Chizumatic

Related:  Tam’s take

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“...It must suck to be a radical these days.  You can’t have conversations in which you pine for revolution without every damn website linking to it.” - “Pogo,” commenting at Althouse

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“People aiming to yank the politics out of government invariably end up removing the democracy instead.” - Jonah Goldberg

(HT:  PW)

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“We want our government to be like fire fighters: spend their days practicing driving big shiny trucks and having barbecues. In return for the minor inconvenience on the road and the easy 9 to 5, we expect them to be there when we need them.

Not this government: we have a crowd in power that prefers to create fire hazards, then takes pains to let them burn for maximum effect, just to justify taking more of our money because fires are really big and scary.” - “anonymous,” in a comment at Doug Ross’

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“The ubermenschen of the Hollyweird-Ivy League-Lefty ruling class feel the voters, having abandoned them, are no longer worthy of their solicitude and should thus be Alinskyized in the same way as Conservatives, Libertarians, non-RINO Republicans, and Tea Partiers.” - “edutcher,” commenting at Althouse

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“...If we banned things on the basis of ugliness and relative uselessness, there's a whole lot of people who’d never be allowed out of the house.” - Roberta X

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