| The whole modern project has been an attempt to control the freedom unleashed by Christianity’s dual loyalty, to re-create the conformity to “traditional” culture that predated the Christian moral liberation. What we see today in the success of gay marriage is not really freedom run amok, but the result of turning the power to define morality over to the state, or to the dominant group representing it. | “Same Sex Marriage Isn’t About Freedom, The American Conservative
Denying marriage equality is a form of liberation from state power. In GOP terms, the more the state grants individual freedoms, the more it enslaves individuals to the state. Freedom ias enslavement. |
| This is why Mr. Snowden remains in a Moscow airport terminal, making demands (via his father) of the terms the U.S. must meet before he returns home. This is also how Russia merrily arms Bashar Assad’s forces in Syria, and how Mr. Assad unleashes chemical weapons on his own people, and how Iran marches toward an atomic bomb—all with little concern for what the U.S. might do. | “The President and the Hacker, “ WSJ.Connect-the-dots exercises such as this are analogous to magnets that attract everything into a single congealed ,hyper-paranoid field theory. But, wait, they left out Benghazi! |
| Modern liberalism, among other things, is a psychological state, in which very-well-off Americans find ways through their income and privilege to be exempt from the ramifications of their own ideologies, while adopting causes and pets that exempt them from guilt over their own status and limitless opportunities. Judging by their concrete actions, they are indifferent to the poor whom they romanticize at a safe distance. In short, voting for larger government and subsidies is seen as a necessary cost of being a reactionary, liberal elite. | “Liberal Apartheid,” Victor David Hanson, National Review |
| But there is another less-discussed reason. The Obama administration’s instinctive dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law are finally catching up with it. Few Republicans in the House — even those who devoutly want immigration reform — trust the Obama administration to enforce with consistency and integrity anything that passes Congress. | “Why ObamaCare Threatens Immigration Reform,” John Fund, National Review.So if Obama has no respect for the rule of law, the is he an outlaw? If the GOP really believes this, isn’t government dysfunction inevitable? This is part of the Machiavellian Rove strategy to delegitimize Obama. |
| The basic premise of ObamaCare was the government’s superior ability to organize the health insurance industry. That postponed employer mandate is the final proof that it can’t. All of Obama’s projections were wrong, nothing in the ObamaCare system has worked as promised, everything is getting more expensive, and there hasn’t even been much of an improvement in coverage for the uninsured. Central planning is once again exposed as an utter failure.ObamaCare’s continued existence now relies entirely on corrupting the basic principles of American government; the rule of law must be deformed beyond recognition to nourish it. The whole deranged idea was never compatible with a Constitutional republic of free citizens. It requires a bigger government, and smaller people, than we should be willing to tolerate. Either ObamaCare ends… or America will have to shrink enough to fit inside it. | “Trust In Government Dies With the Rule of Law,: Red State. |
| what sort of nation we are turning ourselves into… It’s hard to see how individual liberty can be preserved with the Feds setting loose swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance — and with half the nation cheering them on. That’s not democracy, or even a representative Republic. It’s mob rule. | “Liberty, If You Can Keep It,” National Review.“Eat out their substance”???? ObamaZombies! |
| his appointees for high office were demonstrably corrupt, incompetent or pursuing a toxic socialist or gay ideology…we no longer see… true conservatives – men like Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, men who were willing to stand up to bullies and call a spade a spade…” modern man has been feminized by overwhelmingly liberal feminist teachers who see playing dodge-ball in the schoolyard as the moral equivalent of playing with a loaded gun. | July 4, 2013: Can America Recover From Obama and His Fellow Travelers?” One Citizen Speaking. |
Politiscripts, by Richard Roth 