Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn’t authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don’t understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.
Tag: Joe Sobran
(1946-2010) American journalist and writer, formerly with National Review magazine and a syndicated columnist. “Perhaps the finest columnist of our generation.” — Pat Buchanan
Politicians and pickpockets
The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn’t get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.
Destroying our protections
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren’t entitled to.
Modern ‘diversity’
When liberals clamor for ‘diversity,’ they don’t necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.
Need, greed, and compassion
Today, wanting someone else’s money is called ‘need,’ wanting to keep your own money is called ‘greed,’ and ‘compassion’ is when politicians arrange the transfer.
Censorship
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.
The de-evolution of schooling
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.
Forms of tyranny
Tyranny seldom announces itself … In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
Small-minded rulers
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We’ll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.
Corruption in government
Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?