[Josh Painter]

Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Quick Reference

[SShultz460]

Gotta love Steyn

[Viking2002]

Steyn *PING*!

[Cicero]

Amen.

[ddtorquee]

from Steyn’s article: [President Calvin Coolidge] “was a magnificent tax-cutter, and he vetoed hugely popular farm-subsidy bills on the grounds that, “if the government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favour, and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.” “

Boy, could we use some of that thinking today.

[ddtorquee]

another great excerpt: “As for phony energy, consider Bill Clinton. Back in 1998, when he was fending off the first few months of the Monica business, President Clinton used to say that much as he’d like to resign, hand over to Al Gore and sit on the beach all day, he had no choice but to accept the burdens of office and “get back to working for the American people.” There wasn’t a single morning, he assured the public, that he didn’t wake up thinking about how he could make life better for the American people. I’m a foreigner, so it’s hardly my place to tell the American people that the best response to this is: “oh, bugger off, you neo-monarchical narcissist.” The founding principle of the republic is that the American people are perfectly capable of making life better for themselves, and all you wannabe-king types need to do is get out of the way. “

[Grig]

Reagan was older then when he first ran for POTUS and put more effort into campaigning for it than Fred does. Fred needs to increase his support but isn’t even putting in the work needed just to maintain his standing in the polls.

[SuziQ]

LOL! Yep, what looks to others as laconic can be a real plus!

[FreedomPoster]

Ping list pings.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping; don’t miss this.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good read!

Lethargy bump : )

[jellybean]

When Clinton declared that the era of Big Government was over, he was right in a sense: henceforth, in the post-Cold War world, Big Government would be replaced by lots and lots and lots of Small Government, micro-policies on this, micro-policies on that, that cumulatively add up to be even more costly than Big Government. But along the way, the core elements of government — national defence, strategic clarity — get lost.

~Mark Stein

Well said, Mark!

[sageb1]

Heck, Churchill didn’t get out of bed until after noon.

[ellery]

bump

[PGalt]

“Why, then, the new Government takes a bold step; it unites all its forces in order to maintain itself; it smothers opinion, has recourse to arbitrary measures, ridicules its former maxims, declares that it is impossible to conduct the administration except at the risk of being unpopular; in short, it proclaims itself governmental. And it is here that other candidates for popularity are waiting for it. They exhibit the same illusion, pass by the same way, obtain the same success, and are soon swallowed up in the same gulf.”

http://bastiat.org/en/government.html

I should be glad enough, you may be sure, if you had really discovered a beneficent and inexhaustible being, calling itself the Government, which has bread for all mouths, work for all hands, capital for all enterprises, credit for all projects, oil for all wounds, balm for all sufferings, advice for all perplexities, solutions for all doubts, truths for all intellects, diversions for all who want them, milk for infancy, and wine for old age - which can provide for all our wants, satisfy all our curiosity, correct all our errors, repair all our faults, and exempt us henceforth from the necessity for foresight, prudence, judgment, sagacity, experience, order, economy, temperance, and activity.

[Aeronaut]

OK, I have a new tagline.

[grimalkin]

bump

[NonValueAdded]

Another magnificent article by Stein.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Why isn’t Steyn yet a citizen? We need more like him. I have been doing my part to get new citizens to vote Republican.

[lesser_satan]

BTTT

[goldstategop]

I'd prefer someone who takes lot of naps and wields a big veto pen as President. As opposed to the hyper-active Clinton who got used to running America as a virtual extension of himself. The last thing we want is a President whose chief concern is his belief in his own indispensability. In other words, we would like to see a President who puts the country's welfare first.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus