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Joel B. Pollak Breitbart.com Big Government 28 Dec 2014 Cass Sunstein, former regulatory czar for President Barack Obama, is the subject of a glowing profile in this month’s Harvard magazine. Entitled “The Legal Olympian,” the article gushes over Sunstein’s extensive scholarly output, notes his many talents (including squash), and touches briefly on his philosophy of […] December 28th, 2014 | Tags: "Nudge", “libertarian paternalism", Alexis de Tocqueville, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), statism, transparency | Category: Barack Obama, Government regulations, Politics, Progressives | Comments are closed
Andrew Napolitano Reason Magazine 7/4/2013 Do you have more personal liberty today than on the Fourth of July 2012?… …To what governmental powers may the governed morally consent in a free society? We can consent to the powers necessary to protect us from force and fraud, and to the means of revenue to pay for […] July 4th, 2013 | Tags: Alexis de Tocqueville, despotism, Thomas Jefferson, tyranny | Category: 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, American Revolutionary War, Barack Obama, Founding Fathers, Government, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Or, Why Democrats Really Are a Bunch of Moochers Update: Are We This Stupid? Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. Jawa Report 4/17/2012 Over at Drudge he’s running the headline “Only 85 Million Pay Fed Taxes” based on a Tax Foundation report showing just that. There are plenty of scary statistics in there, most of them which you […] April 17th, 2012 | Tags: "unfairness", Alexis de Tocqueville, class warfare, tax reform | Category: corruption, Entitlements, Politics, Socialism, Taxes | Comments are closed
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 March 1st, 2010 | Tags: Alexis de Tocqueville | Category: Congress, Entitlements, Quotations | Comments are closed
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