Via Say Uncle.

Just the pure goggle-eyed violent stupidity of it could be the tinder of insurrection. The proverbial final straw.

“In a normal democracy?”

I’m not sure what your idea of a “normal democracy” is, Dionne, but in American democracy the Congress doesn’t take over an industry…

Democracy is democracy is democracy is mob rule is mob rule is mob rule.

By any other name, flavor, or stench, democracy always has been, is now, and always will be slow death by creeping mob lynching. There is no honor in defending the indefensible.

Three recent items, all excellent examples of that fact:

• Government-paid hell-raisers
• Thoreau on separating oneself from the state
• Judicial terrorists

See the binding principle?

Ruthie: “In the real world…”

The nanosecond that phrase is used, it reveals that the user imagines that he (or Ruthie, in this case) is imbued with some special perception, which common folk, like everyone who disagrees with her, is not capable of understanding, but must simply comply because she said so.

Whenever you see anyone use the phrase, “in the real world”, be assured, that author is most certainly not aware of what it means to live in this world.

Carved into the marble behind me are the words of our first Commander-in-Chief:  “When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.”  Just as the contributions that our servicemen and women make to this nation don’t end when they take off their uniform, neither do our obligations to them.  And when we fulfill those obligations, we aren’t just keeping faith with our veterans; we are keeping faith with the ideals of service and sacrifice upon which this republic was founded. [emphasis mine]

The thug-in-chief is a manipulating liar. America was forged upon the ideal of individual liberty, not servitude and sacrifice:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

There was no screeching appeal to either service or sacrifice in attendance at the birth of America.

Obama wants you to think that you owe something to people you don’t know, haven’t ever met, and never will meet. He wants you to accept the idea that you owe something to everyone else simply because you exist.

There is no premise more wrong.

…the tax burden for most Americans is far too high but they do not realize it fully because of tax withholding and the payroll tax hides the true burden they are forced to shoulder.

I know exactly how much has been stolen from me, because I’ve been keeping track for over 20 years.

I didn’t read the article because Murray reveals what he is in his very first sentence, however, ending withholding and making people take action to pay taxes would certainly make them fully aware of the fact that taxation is theft, and whether or not it’s “bad for democracy” would instantly become a moot point just as it should be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVChNmN9y7E

Via Wendy.

Peter, don’t debase yourself by stooping to join the ranks of those presumptive rulers. I know your heart’s in the right place, but you can’t stop that screeching thing by stepping into it.

without freedom there is no morality. Only social control.

That’s precisely what Anthony Burgess illustrated in A Clockwork Orange. You owe it to yourself to read the book or watch the movie. It shows exactly where social control is going.

At the end of the day that’s what an economy is supposed to do. It’s supposed to employ as many people as possible.

To hear it, go here, click the “Listen Now” link, and fast forward to just before the 9-minute mark.

An economy has no purpose unto itself. An economy is an aggregate of individual transactions. It has no “purpose.” It can’t. It simply is.

Adam is assigning purpose where no purpose can exist. His statement is no different than, “the purpose of gravity is to kill people who fall.”