Friday, November 13, 2009

Principled Politics – 11/13/09

ObamaCare Is Not Pro-Choice – for Anyone - “This is a health care bill, not an abortion bill,” says President Obama.  Au contraire, mon frère…. Whatever your views on abortion, the fight over abortion in the Obama health plan illustrates perfectly why government should stay out of health care… Get government out of health care, and you’ll be able to make choices for yourself.  Not before.

Charles Krauthammer: Medicalizing Mass Murder at Townhall
What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives.

"True liberty cannot exist apart from the full rights of property,
for property is the only crystallized form of free faculties...
The whole meaning of socialism is a systematic glorification of force...
No literary phrases about social organisms are potent enough to evaporate the individual, who is the prime, indispensable, irreducible element." -- Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) English author

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society." -- Benjamin Franklin

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