Archive for September, 2006

Monday, September 18th, 2006

“People constantly speak of ‘the government’ doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men.” —H. L. Mencken

“Of the two suicide cults America confronts, liberalism is by far the more lethal.” —Don Feder

It could be that we should elect our government officials by lottery. We couldn’t do much worse than we are right now.

Monday, September 18th, 2006

“Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward—certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called ‘Constitutional law,’ much of which has no basis in that document… The real question [for judicial nominees] is whether that nominee will follow the law or succumb to the lure of ‘a living constitution,’ ‘evolving standards’ and other lofty words meaning judicial power to reshape the law to suit their own personal preferences.”—Thomas Sowell

A gaggle of lawyers slowly but surely reshaping the constitution in their own image and to their own ends. The ultimate welfare and opinions of the people is never a consideration.