To assume that [climate change] is a problem is to assume that the state of earth’s climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change. Dr. Michael Griffin
NASA Administrator , May 30, 2007 interview
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The predictable result has been more deaths on the road. It makes sense. Smaller cars sustain more damage in wrecks than bigger ones do. The Competitive Enterprise Institute found between 2,600 and 4,500 traffic deaths a year can be attributed to the CAFE [fuel economy] standards. If the standard for cars is pushed to 40 miles per gallon, the death toll could jump to 5,700 a year. Investor’s Business Daily
June 26, 2001
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet and writer
The attorney general needs to follow the Constitution, whether the Congress authorizes him to or not. And then we will have the rule of law, and civil liberties upheld, and security as well. . . . The bottom line is the government needs to preserve civil liberty. That’s why we have this country. Judge Andrew Napolitano
Fox News, summer 2003
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt
Political Essays (1819). ‘The Times’ Newspaper (1778-1830)
Of course they have no credibility. If they had any, they certainly lost it in 1991. I don’t see that they have acquired any credibility. We attribute absolutely no credibility. Hans Blix
Sunday, Feb 23, 2003, Time magazine online edition.
There is little good in filling churches with people who go out exactly the same as they came in; the call of the Church is not to fill churches but to fill heaven. Fr. Andrew
SDC “The Way of Victory”
This is, perhaps, the most fundamental lesson of our study: ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority. A variety of inhibitions against disobeying authority come into play and successfully keep the person in his place. Dr. Stanley Milgram
Obedience to Authority, 1974 (excerpts from his psychological experiments where human subjects apply lethal electrical shocks to other humans, because ‘they’re only following orders.’ )
Another pervasive — and dangerous — sign of the mushy thinking of our time are the flagrantly fraudulent phrases that pass muster in the media and in politics. None is more fraudulent than the word ‘asking’ in discussions of public policy issues.Liberals love to say things like, ‘We’re just asking everyone to pay their fair share.’ But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave.The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don’t pay. Thomas Sowell
Forbes July 1994,(1930- ) American writer, scholar and economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute,Stanford, California
Recognize that you don’t live in a vacuum. Every time you break a rule, it hurts someone else. If you can’t figure out how, sit there until you can. Albert J. Bernstein, PhD
Emotional Vampires