2012-11-11

Quote Of The Day

The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." - attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville

Oh, we're already there in the West.

And flying high!

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You know, I'm starting to see what Edmund Burke (along with obscure Italian conservative Joseph de Maistre) was saying back when he thought the French Revolution was an abhorrent affront to civility.





2 comments:

  1. The West as we know it is already finished. Various secession movements succeeding (such as a possible break up of the US with the deep South and Texas leaving the Union again to form a Southern nation independent of D.C.) is the only hope.

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  2. Oh, Nick. Don't you know? Free birth control and pay equity are THE single MOST important issues of our times!

    Obama wouldn't allow it. It would be his Lincoln moment.

    "First, Bin Laden fell in my laps and NOW I will crrrrrush the rebellion! I'll have my face carved in a rock somehere!"

    And out would come the drones.

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