Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

By today's standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.