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Category Archives: Political Survival Kit
Photography is not a crime, and can help solve crimes
Matt Blaze: Personal photos helped solve the Boston Marathon case, so cameras will be banned at Kentucky Derby for security reasons. Somehow after 9/11 people decided that cameras were terrorist tools, so banning them became part of the ongoing security … Continue reading
QotD – The Truth at the Center of Politics
“We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we have done it.” – Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
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Quote of the Day
“Preposterous Keynesian fallacy at work. It presupposes that money allocated to some project via the political process is more likely to create a ‘multiplier’ than market driven uses of that money… and it assumes that the money taken by the … Continue reading
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Land of the Free Except for All the Prisoners
The per-capita numbers by country aren’t any better. We have more people in prison per capita than Russia and China. Maybe one day we’ll end the war on drugs and release the prisoners.
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It’s the morning after the election, America
We can all go back to ignoring Ohio.
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Quote of the Day
“If you want less of something, like tobacco or income, tax it. If you want more of something, like tobacco or unemployment, subsidize it. (And if you want proof that our government is crazy, roll those two sentences around in … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Limited Hangout, Modified Limited Hangout
In light of yesterday’s partial confession by Peter Gleick, this seems like an appropriate word of the day. From Wikipedia: A limited hangout, or partial hangout, is a public relations or propaganda technique that involves the release of previously hidden … Continue reading
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Go Read Theodore Dalrymple’s Latest
Austerity in the U.K.: Since the end of World War II, the British have grown accustomed to the idea that the money in their pockets is what the government graciously consents to leave them after it has taken its share. … Continue reading
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Glenn Reynolds on Weinergate
“I think there’s an important point in the comic value: The people who think they’re smart enough, and morally superior enough, to run everyone else’s lives are risible. They’re not smart enough to run their own lives competently, and they’re … Continue reading
P.J. O’Rourke on Government Charity
“There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as “caring” and “sensitive” because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing … Continue reading
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Joseph Sobran
“Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.” — Joseph Sobran
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Word of the Day: Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureacracy
Jerry Pournelle: Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples … Continue reading
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America, we have let down our politicians
“When people say, for example, that a particular tax in the U.S. could be higher, my response is that their suggestion is offensive to professional politicians. If there were more blood that could be squeezed from Americans overall, it would … Continue reading
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Glenn Reynolds on Middle Class Markers
“The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have … Continue reading
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