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King Barack’s Crown Government: F.H. Buckley's Once and Future King (Article and book review)
The American Spectator ^ | April 15, 2014 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 04/15/2014 1:10:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The federal government threatens a Nevada rancher with the loss of his private property. A Long Island man loses his life to Obamacare while a Virginia woman’s family says, “Obamacare killed my sister." IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner is held in contempt of Congress, having emerged as the key figure in a scheme to deprive conservatives of their rights.

With these stories and endless others spilling into the news cycle, F.H. Buckley’s new book — The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America — could not be better timed. Mr. Buckley’s writings are familiar on these pages in his role as a senior editor of The American Spectator, but it is his background as foundation professor at the George Mason School of Law that gives this book such incredible resonance.

That the federal government of the United States has careened out of control is increasingly indisputable, as one example after another erupts into pubic view. In addition to the few mentioned above, there’s the Wyoming family that built a stock pond on their private property — in accordance with state law — and now faces a $75,000 a day fine from the EPA for not getting a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. A congressional report alerts us that just to comply with the regulations set in motion by the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” law will cost the private sector an astonishing 24 million man hours—and that’s with only 185 of 400 new federal regulatory rules written. And who can forget the Orwellian-titled “Independent Payment Advisory Board," charged officially with containing Medicare costs that, in the view of alarmed critics, are really all about rationing medical care? Yes, this is precisely the “death panel” Sarah Palin made famous....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bundy; bundyranch; crowngovernment; epaoutofcontrol; facism; fhbuckley; obama; obamacare; obamalawless

1 posted on 04/15/2014 1:10:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would try to equate the little prince with King Cnute, but the Scandanavian King did what he did out of piety. BHO actually believes he can order the tide to stop.


2 posted on 04/15/2014 1:57:24 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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