The New Country

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
 
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton
 
All Military Leaders for Memorial Day!

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think [...]

Think off-center.
George Carlin
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
A baby like most politicians is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
If you burn your neighbor’s house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz
We’ve only [...]

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O’Rourke
 
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
 
People who work together will win, whether it be [...]

“A constitution of governance, once changed from freedom, can never be restored.  Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”  — John Adams
 
“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”  — Ronald Reagan
 
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift [...]

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O’Rourke
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its [...]

Just the other day I drove right into the middle of a perfect analogy for what seems to be happening in the United States today.  As I’m driving down the express way there are big signs on either side of the road saying left lane closed ahead.  As a semi-considerate and somewhat responsible human being [...]

Tax Policy In The New Country
 
Taxation is perhaps the single most contentious issue on any society.  Government services and program cost money.  How should that money be raised?  Taxes are the most common solution to the need for revenue, but who should pay them and how much should each person or organization pay? 
 
We believe [...]

 
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O’Rourke

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The [...]

A lot of my friends and clients have been asking my opinion on all of the bailouts and government intervention lately.  Obviously everyone is talking about it!  The god’s honest truth about my feelings on the current government intervention is that I’m just not sure how I feel.  I really do see both sides of the issue [...]

“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. “  - Alexis De Tocqueville  (early 1800’s)
 
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt…” Thomas Jefferson
 
“We have tried spending money. [...]