“Stimulus package” It is a slow day in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle, and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops … Continue reading →

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. — Author unknown

Somewhere, Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the purpose of education is to create a mind that cannot be humbugged by words. Well, that is not the purpose of American education now. Much of the humbugging by words take place inside … Continue reading →

“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.” George Sand

I have said that faith and force are corollaries, and that mysticism will always lead to the rule of brutality.  The cause of it is contained in the very nature of mysticism.  Reason is the only objective means of communication … Continue reading →

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like … Continue reading →

Alexis de Tocqueville: “Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable when once the idea of escape from them is suggested.”

“Madame, you could go outside and get run over by a bus and just think what you would have missed!” — Graham Kerr, TVs “Galloping Gourmet” in response to criticism that he cooked with butter and enjoyed wine.

“When government taxes, borrows and spends, it shifts unemployment from one sector to another. Of course, the sector that benefits tends to be a political favorite of the shifter.” — Walter Williams

“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” — Thomas Jefferson