If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
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
Greed
Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money — only for wanting to keep your own money.
Communism and socialism
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.
The Federal clique
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.
Living document or dead letter?
This is the familiar idea that the Constitution is a ‘living document,’ which is to say, a dead letter.
Liberal mating and migratory habits
In their mating and migratory habits, liberals are indistinguishable from members of the Ku Klux Klan.
The purpose of a college education
The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.
Our government is above the law
I call the present system ‘Post-Constitutional America.’ As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.