Some quotes to run a country by:

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger
on that article of the Constitution
which granted a right to Congress of expending,
on the objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents.”
— James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source: 1792, in disapproval of Congress appropriating $15,000 to assist some French refugees
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Madison.Quote.24FE


“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people
is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”
— Plutarch
(c.45-125 A.D.) Priest of the Delphic Oracle
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Plutarch.Quote.E3A1


“If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.”
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Source: Democracy–The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Hans-Hermann.Hoppe.Quote.6452

Couldn’t pass these up.

Illinois isn’t the only one.

He’s available, she usually isn’t. Our presumptive Dem candidate, that is.

“Maybe, Hillary has something to hide,” comments Newalert’s Steve Bartin.

I endorse that comment.

Besides, she’s brittle, he’s quick on his feet, a far better campaigner.

Source: Newsalert: Television Networks Struggle to Provide Equal Airtime in the Era of Trump

Worldly-wise advice from the 17th century:

Balthasar Gracian [1601-1658], a Jesuit priest, wrote this collection of pithy sayings four centuries ago.

Gracian speaks to the twenty-first century as well as the seventeenth. It’s only a matter of time before someone markets Gracian’s life advice to busy executives, like Sun Tzu or the Book of Five Rings (if it hasn’t been already). . . .

Blithe Spirit readers should be apprised of at least two other, more recent, translations, by Christopher Maurer (Doubleday ,1992) and Jeremy Robbins (Penguin, 2011).

Robbins notes in his introduction that Gracian (1601-1658) in 1657 was “punished by the Jesuits for his consistent failure to obtain formal permission to publish, as required” — not only this “oracle” but a novel and other works.

This included being removed from his teaching post, being publicly reprimanded, and put on a diet of bread and water. He considered leaving the Jesuits for another order, but was rehabilitated and sent to a college, where he died months later.

Begin with this first epigram, from the 1892 translation by Joseph Jacobs.

i Everything is at its Acme;

especially the art of making one’s way in the world. There is more required nowadays to make a single wise man than formerly to make Seven Sages, and more is needed nowadays to deal with a single person than was required with a whole people in former times.

So matters stood in the 17th century, as now in the 21st, when the advice applies as precisely now as when written.

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom Index

See it here, subtitled assholes at work.

. . . at least briefly, coming up with this from presumably (??) unemotional and unbiased reporters JILL COLVIN and RUSSELL CONTRERAS.

Trump responded [to hecklers] with his usual bluster, instructing security to remove the protesters and mocking their actions by telling them to “Go home to mommy.”

His “usual bluster.” Right out of the AP style book, right?

What next, not using “person” when you mean “man” or “woman” or child?

The most offensive language, though, came from one of the warm-up speakers [for Trump at New Mexico rally].

David Chavez, a former state lawmaker, compared voting for Clinton because she’s a woman to drinking bleach because it looks like water. “I’ve heard people say: I don’t know who to choose: Trump or Hillary. Even Bill Clinton chose other women. So you should, too,” Chavez said.

(Jenna, our reporter in the room, says the crowd laughed and applauded…)

You can criticize someone, but very carefully. You can’t mock the mockable, ridicule the ridiculous, mind p’s and q’s. In short, you have to be careful what you say and how you say it. There are comfort zones out there with big signs saying Keep out!

This fellow was headed for the White House to meet the big black kahuna but couldn’t.

Black Lives Matter is undeniably the most important and inspirational civil-rights movement of our time, which is why it really, really sucks that a prominent BLM organizer has been arrested and charged with pimping an underage girl.

Read the rest of this from Taki’s Magazine.

DOJ lawyers tried to pull wool over the judge’s eyes, when it’s justice that’s supposed to be blind, not the judge.

A federal judge in Texas has ordered hundreds of U.S. Department of Justice lawyers to undergo ethics training, accusing the agency of a “calculated plan of unethical conduct.”

The extraordinary order by U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen says Justice Department lawyers intentionally misled him in the course of a lawsuit filed by Texas and 25 other mostly conservative states challenging the Obama administration’s immigration policy.

He scolded, excoriated, them soundly.

Judge Hanen wrote, “Such conduct is certainly not worthy of any department whose name includes the word ‘Justice.’”

He went on, “In fact, it is hard to imagine a more serious, more calculated plan of unethical conduct. There were over 100,000 instances of conduct contrary to counsel’s representations.”

Who do they think they are, mob lawyers?

They tend to darken not church doors to get married.