Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax. - Mark Steyn
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.
- Mark Steyn
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New Yor… - Mark Steyn
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New Yor…
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. - Mark Steyn
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional. - Mark Steyn
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down? - Mark Steyn
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?
The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people. - Mark Steyn
The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it w… - Mark Steyn
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it w…
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you ca… - Mark Steyn
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you ca…
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it. - Mark Steyn
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
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