The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as public good. Friedrich A. Hayek
Nobel Prize Winnter, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960 (1899-1992)
Monthly Archives: December 2020
B-52s fly over #Persian Gulf as ‘complex attacks’ from #Iran feared, US ready to thwart
Two American B-52 bombers flew a nonstop, round-trip, 30-plus-hour mission from the United States to the Middle East to send a fresh warning to Iran.
www.foxnews.com/politics/b-52s-persian-gulf-iran-attacks-feared-us-ready-to-thwart
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Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both …
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. William Shakespeare
Polonius in Hamlet Act I Scene 3.
Freedom has a thousand charms to show that slaves, howe’er contented …
Freedom has a thousand charms to show that slaves, howe’er contented cannot know. William Cowper
William Cowper (1731-1800)
But it is necessary to know well how to disguise this characteristic […
But it is necessary to know well how to disguise this characteristic [the prince (leader) as both beast and man in ruling], and to be a great pretender and dissembler; and men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. Nicolo Machiavelli
The Prince, written in 1505, published in 1515.
We just think it [price caps
We just think it [price caps] is a very short-sighted kind of approach, and I know there are a lot of people out there who want to try it, have argued for it, but I firmly believe it’s exactly the wrong way to go. … Vice President Dick Cheney
On energy price caps, June 26, 2001, Investor’s Business Daily
is a very short-sighted kind … ]
Who’s the dog walker going by calmly 30 seconds after the explosion?
But who’s the dog walker going by calmly 30 seconds after the explosion?
REUTERS bias: Millions of Americans lose jobless benefits as Trump refuses to sign aid bill
Or “Millions of Americans lose jobless benefits as Democrats in Congress refuse to pass clean bill” Millions of Americans lose jobless benefits as Trump refuses to sign aid bill Millions of Americans saw their jobless benefits expire on Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump refused to sign into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, protesting that it did not do enough to help everyday people. Read in Reuters: apple.news/Ai7X3jdcTR46k80RorjDmHQ
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Marriage isn’t a word… it’s a sentence. King Vidor in …
Marriage isn’t a word… it’s a sentence.
King Vidor
in the 1928 film, The Crawl
KRON: Intentional – Large explosion, buildings damaged in downtown #Nashville
Large explosion, buildings damaged in downtown #Nashville.
www.kron4.com/news/national/large-explosion-buildings-damaged-in-downtown-nashville/
(Via KRON4 News)