Posted on 05/13/2002 7:38:50 AM PDT by P8riot
Just found out from a friend that the CATO institute is offering a free pocket Constitution and Declaration of Independence (no shipping either). Great to have with you when you get into one of those heated arguments with left wing wackos. Here's the link. Do it if you want to. It'll probably get you on their mailing list though.
A BTT for the best idea I've heard in a long time!
I have one - fits in your pocket and it's the most subversive document the world has ever seen. I last used it to show an unbelieving young woman that yes, dear, women did in fact have the vote before 1960. She was serious, and a soon-to-be graduate of a nearby university whose name will not be mentioned but which was named after a very important guy who was our first president. No, not Marx.
Now, get to it.
I have succeeded in securing the adoption of a new set of rules for equity proceedings in the United States courts. I hope to be able to secure new rules to govern proceedings at common law and if I succeed in my efforts in that direction I shall have accomplished more for so-called social justice than all the hollering and hysteria of the professional reformers could achieve in a thousand years.x, I thought you'd have fun with some of these quotations.
Like the other Taft quote, this one is quite Menckenesge in tone. "Hollering and hysteria of the professional reformers"? Sounds like the old sage to me.
Ok, I give in. Where should I start?
I wonder what Mencken's take was on the Taft administration? He would have been in his thirties. A quick websearch says he was writing for the Balt. Herald Tribune until 1906, and then the Sun . The Tribune was pro-Taft. The Sun , I dunno.
He was probably of the progressive set. Maybe that's why he turned cynical. He seems to me to have the contempt of a former believer.
Back to the Library of Congress I go... Thanks, Huck.
Go to the library, and find a collection that contains "On Being an American" and "Sahara of the Bozart." I have to run. More later.
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