Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Personal Responsibility
What does it mean to "drink responsibly?"
Who defines right and wrong eating habits?
What gives a mother the right to say its wrong for her son to run into the parking lot?
Is this mother trying to prevent her son from having fun?
Who defines right and wrong eating habits?
What gives a mother the right to say its wrong for her son to run into the parking lot?
Is this mother trying to prevent her son from having fun?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Robin Hood
"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible
from one party of the citizens to give to the other." --French writer Voltaire
(1694-1778)
"Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political
liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so
pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the
poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes." --American psychologist and
philosopher Will Durant (1885-1981)
Hat tip: Patriot Post
from one party of the citizens to give to the other." --French writer Voltaire
(1694-1778)
"Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political
liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so
pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the
poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes." --American psychologist and
philosopher Will Durant (1885-1981)
Hat tip: Patriot Post
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
John Adams, Prophet
"Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet,' and 'Thou shalt not steal,' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free. "
(John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787)
(John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
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