"There is increasing evidence that most of the corporate
tax is paid by workers in the form of lower wages and by customers in the
form of higher prices." -- Richard
Rahn
"The corporate income tax impedes U.S.
competitiveness. " -- Dan
Mitchell
"Some dedicated people with intelligence may suffer through ed school
in order to teach, but many others will decide that they have better things
to do than listen to the pretentious garbage presented to students under
the guise of teacher training." -- Thomas
Sowell
"I believe gangsta rap does cause violence. Every time I hear
it I want to shoot the radio." -- Gregory Whipple
"The problem for the Democrats is that a significant number of their
voters are far more passionate about their party's enemies than their country's."
-- Vic Irish
"Our
policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies
of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies. ...
None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.
It is weakness ... that invites adventurous adversaries to make mistaken
judgments." -- President Ronald Reagan
"They even made a movie about Mitch, and I always thought that he killed
himself, not out of despair over his romance with his live-in, but as a
result of being played by Martin Sheen." -- Scott Cook, HERE
"Martin Sheen is a pompous ass." -- Neal
Boortz "He really is." -- Environmentalist Belinda Skelton
(they met him in New Hampshire) 1-28-04
"A moral compass needle needs a butt end. Whatever direction France
is pointing -- toward collaboration with Nazis, accommodation with communists,
existentialism, Jerry Lewis, or UN resolution veto -- we can go the other
way with a quiet conscience." -- P.J. O'Rourke
"Dan Rather scored a huge interview with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It’s
really not that bad'." -- Conan O'Brien
"Think of it! Arabic women making law alongside the menfolk! Why, it's
enough to make an embittered, gray-bearded screwball go out and machine-gun
his camel." -- Bill Murchison, HERE
"Yemen to Celebrate Arab Illiteracy Day" -- headlne,Yemen News Agency
Saba, 1-6-04
"I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear
device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami
disguised as cocaine." -- Tom Clancy on Kudlow and Cramer, 9/2/03
"In a very real sense, the reason September eleven of '01 happened
is because right behind me about five blocks the Frank Church committee
hearings in the early 1970's and the Carter administration later in the
1970's largely destroyed the CIA's operations directorate." -- Tom Clancy
on
Kudlow and Cramer, 9/2/03
"Actually you can trace our failures in
stopping global terror all the way back to Jimmy Carter and Democratic
Senator Frank Church." -- Neal
Boortz , 9/1/03
"Since 9/11 there are no more 'civilians'." -- Paul Harvey
"Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.'' --
Abba Eban
"We rather doubt [that fanatical mystic, the self-righteous doctor-killer
Rev. Paul] Hill will end up in heaven, but if he does, it raises an interesting
question: Do non-Muslim terrorists also get 72 virgins?" -- James Taranto
"I am still trying to figure out how I am any worse off if Rush Limbaugh
takes painkillers or Martha Stewart gets an inside tip." -- Thomas
Sowell
"Trent Lott achieved the anatomical triumph of
shoving his foot in his mouth while his head was already in an unlit nether
region. ... But if you tell me that the concept of federalism is racist,
I will say you're too dumb to be a spell-checker at an M&M factory."
-- Jonah
Goldberg
"The ultimate test of a belief in free speech
should be whether it can be extended to people you hate." -- Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes
UN?intended
consequences of "hate crime" laws
"My definition of a free society is a society
where it is safe to be unpopular." -- Adlai E. Stevenson,1952
"In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people
by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small
towns, it's the one." -- Paul Harvey
"Sprawl is beautiful." -- Doug Newman
"American history has proven when people live
in freedom the vast majority of sovereign individuals believe in, and practice,
the golden rule." -- Rick Gaber
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women;
when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.” --
Justice Learned Hand, 1944
"Incentives matter." -- Steven
Landsburg
"The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it."
--
Harry Browne
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers
that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -- Alexis De Tocqueville
"Politicians don't like empowered individuals." -- Neal
Boortz
"There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when
you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or
bureaucrat." -- Neal Boortz
"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that
for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
If you have been living in a world where outcomes are everything, you may
have a very hard time understanding bureaucratic thinking or practices."
-- Thomas Sowell
"The goal of state schools is to churn out obedient citizens, not educated
ones." -- Nick
Ebinger
"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or
thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order
to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school
is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and
tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered
from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." -- H.L. Mencken
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to
think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions
and taboos." -- H. L. Mencken, 1919
"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost
every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities
who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken
them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them
were not worth a brass farthing." -- Autobiography
of Mark Twain by Samuel Clemens
"Contrary to popular belief, people who buy political influence
are vastly outnumbered by people who are sold political influence
by creative or desperate politicians." -- Rick
Gaber
"A paycheck for work performed is a genuine entitlement. A claim against
that paycheck by those who would rather vote for a living than work for
one is neither genuine nor something to which one is entitled in a free
society. Let’s correct the thought patterns that allow the current
misuse of the term to undergird the modern welfare state." -- Larry
Reed
"Democrats divide their time between deploring anything that benefits
rich people and standing in front of rich people, like Oliver Twist with
his porridge bowl, begging for more." -- George Will
"Anyone who thinks that government -- any government -- has the right
to disarm its citizens is not a libertarian." -- David
F. Nolan, Founder, Libertarian Party of the United States
"If you support the
war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service
to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the
sovereign individual human being." -- Neal
Boortz
"I began to study marijuana in 1967... I had not yet learned that there
is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make
the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users
to behave that way."-- Dr. Lester Grinspoon
"H.L. Mencken said, 'The whole aim of practical politics is to
keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by
menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'
Does 'global warming' come to mind? -- Oh, and Hillary says there
is a 'hidden' child care crisis. Could she have meant to say 'imaginary'child
care crisis?" -- Neal Boortz
"There's a whole herd of sacred cows grazing in the lush green pastures
of the federal government. Even though many of them quit giving milk long
ago, we still fund them. I say take 'em out and shoot 'em." -- Sen.
Zell Miller
"We now have the biggest, most expensive federal government in history.
Federal employees are thicker than maggots on a rotting carcass." -- Sen.
Zell Miller
"And they're doing exactly the same thing, only they don't grow wings
and fly away." -- Rick Gaber
"A welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich
people getting out." -- Harry
Browne
"By the end of the 1800's there were literally thousands of charities
set up by private citizens motivated by their own intense desire to help
those who could use a leg-up in life, which they found they could successfully
finance by soliciting funds and volunteer help from other citizens through
the power of simple persuasion. By the end of the 1900's the vast
majority of those charities had been put out of business by politicians
motivated by their own intense desire for political power and for the undeserved
love of the poor, which they found they could buy with other people's money
taken by force, specifically the coercive method of taxation." -- Rick
Gaber
“A progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less,
more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation
of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined
to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.” -- H.
L. Mencken
"The greater the desire to perform humanitarian deeds through legislation,
the greater the violence required to achieve it." -- Ron
Paul
"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being
forced to pay the cost." -- Murray N. Rothbard
"The point to remember is that what the government gives, it must first
take away." -- John S. Coleman
"The purpose of the government is to provide the service, and the
purpose of the media is to provide the vaseline." -- old
libertarian joke
"Selfishness is the pursuit of happiness, freedom, and individual aspirations."
--
Rachel
Patzer
"'Selfish' has two entirely different meanings!" -- Rick
Gaber
"Market
bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets
required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that,
on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without
benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious
faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is
the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the
helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct."--
Julian
Sanchez
"Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes
hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth."
-- Julian
Simon
"The
trouble with so-called 'sensible gun laws' is that they make absolutely
no sense. The politicians who pass them are asking Americans to believe
that a cunning serial killer will walk into a gun store, produce a valid
ID, and buy a firearm that can be traced directly to him. The American
people may be scared, but they're not scared senseless."
--
George Getz
"A moderate is either someone who has no moral code of his own, or if
he does, then he's someone who doesn't have the guts to take sides between
good and evil." -- Rick Gaber
"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles
of his own." -- Aesop
"No man is justified in doing wrong on the grounds of expediency."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"You can judge a man by the books in his library." -- Mark Skousen
"No nation was ever ruined by trade." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The problem with politics isn't the money; it's
the power." -- Harry
Browne
"An armed society is a polite society."--
Robert
A. Heinlein
"70,000,000 gun owners in America behaved peacefully
today..." -- relayed by Shonda Ponder |