There not being bureaucrats overseeing wagon trains, however did the people manage?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged civilization, freedom, government, history, pioneers on June 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »
There not being bureaucrats overseeing wagon trains, however did the people manage?
Posted in That's Life, Uncategorized, tagged citizenship, freedom, government, history on May 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Americans, almost uniquely in the world, have had reason to consider themselves truly citizens rather than subjects, but that’s changing as the administrative state grows. Angelo M. Codevilla takes a look at the situation in a post at the Library of Law and Liberty.
Posted in That's Life, tagged Christianity, Christians, citizenship, faith, food for thought, government, Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Thomas More, worldviews on March 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »
If you’re wondering why, say, The Little Sisters of the Poor can’t just sign off on a form and let others go along with the HHS mandate for them, read this (“St. Thomas More, The Little Sisters of the Poor & the Casualness of Conscience,” Tod Worner, January 7, 2014, at Patheos). Well, even if you know already why they can’t, you might want to read the post. It’s a good overview, and a good reminder of some of what’s at stake.
Posted in That's Life, tagged America, current events, freedom, government on October 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Government has a nasty tendency to overgrow its proper boundaries. (You might have noticed that?) That’s why showdowns between different branches of government, or between the Senate and the House, aren’t necessarily a bad situation overall. Thoughts on the Shut Down at Breakpoint helps explain why.
Posted in Books, That's Life, Uncategorized, tagged Books, government, history, worldviews on June 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
From a new book, a look at the epidemic hijacking of airplanes in the ’60s and ’70s, with emphasis on those starry-eyed people who sought to go to Cuba – where they found themselves despised.
Posted in That's Life, tagged current events, government, politics on June 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The G8 leaders’ limos will be driving past fake storefronts ‘stocked’ with fake goods later this month, according to IrishCentral.
Posted in That's Life, tagged America, current events, economics, government on February 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Michael Avramovich provides some details in The Sequester: National Catastrophe or Much Ado About Nothing? at Mere Comments.
At Townhall, Daniel J. Mitchell would like for the New York Times to show him the “deep cuts” they keep writing about:
Sigh. I feel like a modern-day Sisyphus. Except I’m not pushing a rock up a hill, only to then watch it roll back down.
I have a far more frustrating job. I have to read the same nonsense day after day about “deep spending cuts” even though I keep explaining to journalists that a sequester merely means that spending climbs by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years rather than $2.5 trillion.
He includes a graph, to make it even more plain what he’s talking about.
Then there’s the Michael Ramirez cartoon that compares the 2007 federal budget with the 2013 federal budget, using pie charts.
I think I’m starting to get the picture.
Posted in That's Life, tagged freedom, government, history on October 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »
… was a nightmare, as Virginia Prodan explains in Socialism: Against Gold, Guns, and God at American Thinker.
Posted in Books, That's Life, tagged Books, government, history, society on September 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Samuel Gregg provides some background to our present cultural/political situation, in a post called Mitt de Tocqueville.
…if the liberal commentariat deigned to pick up a copy of the second volume of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and read the chapter entitled “What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear,” they’d find the link between creating tame citizens and a state that generously volunteers to do everything on their behalf spelt out quite gracefully…
hat tip: John Couretas
Posted in That's Life, tagged freedom, government, history on September 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
G.K. Chesterton made a good point about tyranny, and timing.