Tuesday, 15 September 2009
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Political commentary from a libertarian perspective
“In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipotent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy.” -- Justice Louis Brandeis
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed. -- Ayn Rand, 1958
"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some ... The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." -- John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
Politicians are wordsmiths, most deriving from journalism, law and PR. Their craft is words. Those who believe what they say are fools. Judge them by what they do, not by what they say. -- Anon
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." -- Winston Churchill
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK, John F Kennedy, 35th US President
The Establishment, 100 Years of Never Saying Sorry - Frederick Forsyth, Express
David Cameron's Big Society is a grotesque fantasy inspired by leftist subversive Saul Alinsky - Gerald Warner, Telegraph
People no longer recognise the Conservative Party's values, are confused by its policies and repelled by its elitism - Nadine Dorries, ConservativeHome
Cameron plots a fake referendum on the EU - Patrick O'Flynn, Express
How the Political Parties Exclude the General Public - Peter Watt, Dale & Co
The Budget is a Circus - Gerard Docherty, The Freedom Association
Just why is Tory MP Tim Yeo so passionate about green issues? - James Delingpole, Telegraph
Budget 2012: Chancellor George Osborne should cancel his Budget, we don't need it - Liam Halligan, TelegraphIf our money be gone, thank God, our eyes are left - Raedwald
Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left's closet - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
Germany's nasty little game to push the Greeks until they break - Mary Ellen Synon
The BBC is killing Britain's recovery - James Delingpole, Telegraph
State overkill - Raedwald
When Eurocrats become the baddies in thrillers, it's all over for Brussels - Daniel Hannan, Telegraph
Brown failed. Continuity Brownism will fail, too - Douglas Carswell
Did Yale University plan to create an intellectually superior race of children to repopulate Britain after World War Two? - Jill Reilly, Mail
Britain's extreme QE is dangerously counter-productive - Liam Halligan, Telegraph
Nathaniel Rothschild loses High Court libel battle - Telegraph
Quantitative easing: Pensioners are paying the price for Sir Mervyn’s 'funny money’ - Fraser Nelson, Telegraph
Energy policy based on renewables will win hearts but won't protect their owners from frostbite and death due to exposure - Kevin Myers, Irish Independent
Be scanned or be banned - Angry Exile
The Salt War reaches the cancer stage - Leg-Iron
Silencing Science - The Filthy Engineer
Throwing good money after bad to save the Eurozone is economic madness - John Baron MP, ConHome
French socialists’ Latin revolt against Germany - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
India tells Britain: We don't want your aid - Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph
How Europe Has Evolved From A Democracy To A Bankocracy And Why Austerity Will Lead To Chaos - ZeroHedge
Mandarins answer to no one - Raedwald
Anti-Christian despotic fascism at UCL - Archbishop Cranmer
Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon - ZeroHedge
Britain and EU opt-outs: let’s face it, our Prime Minister is a coward - The Slog
They cannot have it both ways - Richard North, EU Referendum
German Marks printed May 2010 - see for yourself!
The BBC and Climate Change: a Triple Betrayal - booklet by Christopher Booker, with forward by Sir Anthony Jay (PDF)
How EU laws are made - Dr Lee Rotherham, Bruges Group
DOWNLOAD THE GLOBAL WARMING SCEPTICS' HANDBOOK
Bruges Group: Rebuttal of pro-EU propaganda
Top notch post: Fear the Witch, for it is you. Imaginitive and incisive, Leg-Iron's fable on the politics of fear.

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