Day: May 16, 2013

Who says there are problems with big govt.?

These fellows, for starters:

James Madison wrote, “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” John Adams wrote, “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” Thomas Jefferson wrote, “In questions of power…let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

Didn’t the IRS target groups that stated their goal as “educating the public about the Constitution”? No wonder.

This is what the Founders understood that today’s left doesn’t want to acknowledge or take seriously. Because if they did, they would have to give credence to the case for making government smaller and limiting its power.

Robert Tracinski on the case.

Priests, money, what hurts the church

The pontiff:

“When a priest, a bishop goes after money, the people do not love him – and that’s a sign…. St. Paul did not have a bank account, he worked, and when a bishop, a priest goes on the road to vanity, he enters into the spirit of careerism – and this hurts the church very much – [and] ends up being ridiculous: he boasts, he is pleased to be seen, all powerful – and the people do not like that!”

It’s in this analysis of what’s to be done with and about the Vatican Bank.

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