This is the biggest lie perpetuated from the left; that our vast social spending can be funded by only taxing the wealthiest 1%. The math just does not work. As Thatcher so famously noted, “You eventually run out of other people’s money.”
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“..we still cannot cut down the rules that protect the Devil without cutting down the rules that protect the saints.”
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The dignity and flawed nature of man and the need to restrain his access to central power, the necessary limits on democracy, and the need to view freedom in the individual rather than collective have become the defining tenets of modern conservatism. History has confirmed their value.
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“Ronald Reagan liked to quip that a government department represented the closest thing to eternal life we are likely to see on this earth. In close second is a bad journalist with the right opinions, for he will be treated as if he were the very embodiment of liberty.”
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Charles Cooke at National Review comments in The Brexit Vote Was Just the Beginning In our present climate, it is customary for cosmopolitan sorts to accuse anybody who dissents from the European project of being an unreconstructed “nationalist.” Insofar as this
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by Henry Oliner Many Americans have become familiar with basic economic concepts because it affects them so regularly, but our understanding usually stops at our shore. The Brexit vote has us scratching our head to comprehend something we hardly knew
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For my liberal friends who do not understand why anyone needs an assault rifle or why anyone with basic common sense would object to banning them, allow me to try and explain and offer some other solutions that may actually
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One of the wisest political warnings- “Imagine the power you are willing to bestow on an elected office in the hands of your worst nightmare.” Charles Cooke’s article is an excellent answer to the recent book Relic by William Howell
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I think I am focused or fairly discriminating on what I post from other writers, but over the years I have gravitated toward only a few. Kevin Williamson and Charles Cooke of National Review are two of the most used.
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from Charles Cooke at National Review, Conservatives Refuse to Repeat the Mistakes of History (a fundraising letter) Tricky as it may be to acknowledge, the eternal verities care little for the zeitgeist. Fashions may change, and the shape of the mob
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from Charles C.W. Cooke in The National Review, Our Presidents Are Beginning to Act Like Kings As Thomas Jefferson had it, “the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” There are no new
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From National Review, The Trump Virus and Its Symptoms by Charles Cook: excerpt: In parallel, the Trump virus yields a second — and equally potent — symptom: It provokes otherwise intelligent people into an ugly form of civil confusion. Because
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Charles Cooke from National Review, Hillary Clinton’s Uber Speech Belongs in 1930s America: Economically, the Clinton-Sanders-Warren-O’Malley project is stuck squarely in 1938. Theirs is a country in which tax rates can be set without reference to global competition; in which
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From National Review, Robert Kennedy Jr., Aspiring Tyrant by Charles Cooke Excerpts: Those who contend that global warming “does not exist,” Kennedy claimed, are guilty of “a criminal offense — and they ought to be serving time for it.” Kennedy’s
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Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: Barack Obama’s administration is unmoored from the institutions that have long kept the imperial tendencies of the American presidency in check. That is partly the fault of Congress, which has
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