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"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples' money."
Margaret Thatcher
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
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Author Archives: Rob Waterson
American Liberals Are Not Liberal
This has been sticking in my craw for a long time and it is high time that I penned a short post about it. You see a lot of people in America who will self identify as “liberal”, but in … Continue reading
Posted in Collectivism
Tagged Collectivism, Hayek, liberal, Mark Levin, socialism, statism
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DeMint Stays on Course
Members of the Senate Conservatives Fund received an email from South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint explaining his opposition to the “tax cut deal”. Hat tip to Cubachi (web, Twitter) for the link. It would seem that while a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Tea Party
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A Tale of Two Sites
On a day like today, I like to go check out the background picture on Bing.com. They did not let me down, showing a truly awesome overhead shot of the USS Arizona memorial: Then, I decided to would see how … Continue reading
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Us and Them
There is a staggering and ever-widening divide in America. It’s not based on race or religion. It’s not about the Have’s and the Have-not’s. It has nothing to do with regions or education or even political affiliation, though I suspect … Continue reading
Posted in Government Corruption, Politics
Tagged Federal Budget, Federal Salaries, Government Labor Unions, Tea Party
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Let’s Offer Amnesty
This blog post is long overdue. There is a segment of our society that is living in the shadows. These people are leading a double life in which they alone know the full truth. They remain in hiding, knowing that … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Politics
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What I Have Been Doing Instead of Blogging
For the last several months I have not been blogging regularly. There is a reason for that. I decided that I had to spend some real time trying to do something more worthwhile. While I enjoy writing quite a bit, … Continue reading
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Cass and Benedict
If you take seriously Sun Tzu’s admonition to “know your enemy”, you might be familiar with Cass Sunstein, an Obama staff member and a particularly dangerous statist. More importantly, when it comes to dismissing the notion that the Constitution defines strict … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Supreme Court, US Constitution, Videos
Tagged C-SPAN, Cass Sunstein, Living Constitution, Living Document, Originalism, statism, Time Machine, US Constitution
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Those Voices Don’t Speak For the Rest of Us
Mark Levin tweeted a link to this video. It was brilliantly put together. The refreshingly almost-libertarianish/constitutionalist nature of the conservative philosophy of Reagan in this and many other speeches, and its clear contrast with the people presently in power, reminds … Continue reading
Living Document Tyranny
Of the many untenable positions held by the American Left, none is a bigger threat to the continuation of the American Experiment than the egregiously dishonest “Living Constitution” philosophy. I was prompted to blog about this by an excellent article … Continue reading
