Media Is The Enemy

An Old Political Joke

Several years ago, Jesse Jackson ran for President. All the candidates were given a tour of the White House.

When they got to the laundry, Jackson complained that the machines were all white.

The tour guide responded, "That's okay, Reverend. The agitators are black."

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The Great Society

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference."

"I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years."

    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973)

For Lack of a Better Term

The Revenge of the Nerd

"So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause."

"What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we’ve been fighting to destroy?”

    Padmé Amidala, Star Wars III, “The Revenge of the Sith”

Birthers United

Thomas Sowell: The Libertarian Titan

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."

"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."

"The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist'."

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

That Long?!

On Political Tags

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."

    Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)

What Changed Since 1949?

Let Me Be Clear...

On Democracy vs Liberty

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Obama vs Obama on Debt Ceiling

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. ...Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that the 'buck stops here'. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

    Barack Hussein Obama, 2006

On Nanny Government

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

    C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

On National Debt

"Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves."

    Norm Franz

White House Bathroom

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Lincoln and Political Correctness

"I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
    Lincoln and Douglas fourth joint debate
    Charleston, September 18, 1858

On Judicial Activism

"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life if secured against all liability to account."

    Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)