"He who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate."  –Karl Popper

Tennis Pro Peng Shai has recanted her sexual harassment allegations previously leveled at a Chinese Communist official.  I'm skeptical because I have a brain.

"The fanatical Muslims despise America because it's all lapdancing and gay porn; the secular Europeans despise America because it's all born-again Christians hung up on abortion; the anti-Semites despise America because it's controlled by Jews. Too Jewish, too Christian, too Godless, America is also too isolationist, except when it's too imperialist."  -Mark Steyn

"I wish to stress that, apart from strictly political questions or those fundamentally embedded in the revolution, criticism can, with limitations, be exercised for all other questions."  -Mussolini

Increasingly, there is a racial supremacy movement gaining steam in the USA.  But few people seem to notice, and no one in the media.  Let's notice.

“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”  -Elie Wiesel

“Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.” -Pericles

CA governor Gavin Newsom has had a difficult few weeks. And by difficult I mean funny.

“If men think that force is all they need to rob their betters—let them see what happens when one of their betters chooses to resort to force.” -Ayn Rand

"For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea, but it's politically correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not determined by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity." -Walter Williams

"They will be the first Black woman nominated to the United State Supreme Court." -Joe Biden

"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others." -George Orwell

"Blue-pilled people use language as a way to avoid thought. Their cognitive process is entirely different. They use phrases delivered to them by the corporate press to close off thoughts where a critical mind would otherwise go, akin to sewing up a hole in clothes." -Michael Malice

The story of Ignaz Semmelweis is complicated. But worthwhile. It's a story of how a man did a great thing, but not all THAT great, and then lost his mind.

As I've grown older I have lost the sense that we have "arrived" in history. We are midstream and basically indistinguishable from 100 other generations of men.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick

Joe Biden's "Jim Crow 2.0," his "Voting Rights Act," and his press conference all reveal a power-hungry, lying, foolish demagogue.

“A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which he proposes to pay off with your money.” -G. Gordon Liddy

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” -English Proverb, 1670

President Obama once described the butchery of four Jews in a Kosher Supermarket by an Islamic terrorist as "random." The FBI did roughly the same in Texas recently, saying the hostage-taking there was "not specifically related to the Jewish community."

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” -GM Trevelyan

“A freedom of action which might have been justified in the relatively simple life of the last century cannot be tolerated today, because the unwise action of one individual may adversely affect the lives of thousands. We have left the period of extreme individualism and are living in a period in which the national economy must be recognized as a controlling factor.” –US Chamber of Commerce, 1931

“Surely the good of society as a whole cannot be better served than by the preservation against arbitrary restraint of the liberties of its constituent members.” -George Sutherland, 1923

"We do not impugn the intentions behind the agency’s mandate. Instead, we only discharge our duty to enforce the law’s demands when it comes to the question who may govern the lives of 84 million Americans. Respecting those demands may be trying in times of stress. But if this Court were to abide them only in more tranquil conditions, declarations of emergencies would never end and the liberties our Constitution’s separation of powers seeks to preserve would amount to little." -Neil Gorsuch, 2022

"The government was to exist and move by virtue of the efficacy of ‘checks and balances.’ The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. No living thing can have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live." -Woodrow Wilson, 1913

New laws! Insurance companies have to pay for your COVID tests (8/mo) and companies with over 100 employees have to get vaxxed or tested incessantly (for the moment, at least). But before anyone alive today was born, Congress had to pass laws. And we kind of pretended that was still what was going on but it wasn't anymore.

Agencies should be granted “all necessary powers” and we should “not [be] too greatly concerned with the extent to which such action does violence to the traditional tripartite theory of government organization.” -James Landis, 1938

Timing is very important.

My trash company is issuing "naughty" and "nice" recycling lists.  This makes me want to put "naughty" items out for collection.

"Why didn't the USA switch to metric?"

A top parenting website:  "Hitting children teaches them that it is okay for big people to hit little people, and that it is okay to vent anger through violence. Now, I know there will be times when your toddler will make you really angry, but learning toddler-ese can give you an outlet for your frustration: Vent your anger by clapping and growling..."  LOL

“There is no history or experience from which the wrong lesson cannot be drawn.  That two wrongs do not make a rich is a cliché, of course, but in our conduct we often disregard the truth it expresses.  If drought is bad, it does not follow that a flood will be an unqualified good.”  - Theodore Dalrymple