the IDIOT

“liberty” poster boy thomas sowell is linked at drudge asserting that tyranny’s increasing via useful idiots (insert two layers of quotes there). he then exposes himself as the worst sort of useful idiot, a crime-mob slurper posing as justice advocate.

[...] If our laws and our institutions determine that BP ought to pay $20 billion — or $50 billion or $100 billion — then so be it.

But the Constitution says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without “due process of law.” [...]

that’s the same dreck ron paul sells via gunman. the rapist has a proper role! he’s merely out of control!

in my 20s and 30s i did that “hey, don’t get me wrong” state-apologist routine while pretending to bitch about the state. figured i was damned late growing out of it. no idea what retardation hits the RP/TS crowd.

retards, the state is not you.

contrary to most regular LRC visitors, i think butler shaffer’s writing is usually similar to that of the skin whore twins thomas sowell and walter williams — overrated by attachment to the person. he kicks it old school though in this article on the psychological destruction of the state (one of the most important liberty topics, though i rarely write about it because it’s so difficult to express adequately to fools): (more…)

why is it most people in the world can’t figure out when tired blastcaps have simply entered the column-churn mill, never to return?

“oh, it’s 3 o’clock. i need to fart out a column, honey. i’ll be right back.”

then you get… this:

Apparently there is nobody among either the Democrats or the Republicans who is going to cause a runaway stampede like that which toppled all the Republican front-runners in 1940, when the convention delegates began loudly chanting “We want Wilkie!”

It is a struggle to keep awake during most of the so-called “debates” among the small army of candidates in both parties. At least the primaries will put an end to those awful spectacles.

It is much too early to try to guess who is going to win either party’s nomination. The most we can have at this point are some general impressions.

None of the candidates looks truly inspiring at this point. I wouldn’t buy a used car from most of them, nor a brand new car from some of them.

bear in mind he got paid for this column. that’s the level, and he doesn’t deviate. thus i’ll just throw out a few examples through the end of his latest masterwork (pretend there are ellipses between unconnected blocks): (more…)

one of the delicious aspects of learning is the unfolding of new layers underneath something assumed by a man to have been thoroughly understood. in my recent long journey around the USSA, i kept coming back to the distortion upon which “government” relies: that it, and not individuals, compose society — that government is the finest, highest manifestation of all good sought in this life.

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lee wrights. good overview, with this quote:

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

-Thomas Sowell