What Air is to Fire

"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwise. As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. . . . " James Madison

If people refuse to govern themselves at all -- let alone well -- it is unlikely that a bureaucratic state will be in any position to lessen destructive impulses. Both New York and California are Pushing for Constitutional Conventions. If our politicians were anything like truthful, they would point to these two states and instruct Obama that the proper course at this time is a reduction in spending, and tax reform, not a crazed expansion of the State.

Souls! All I Need Are Souls!

Tory in America Fred Siegel on Henry Fairley's Essays

Hitler's America: Wizbang Gets the Creeps

Further Dissent at Washington Rebel