Regulation exists to manufacture non-compliance.
Oct 102016
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Sep 272016
The thirst for equality can be slaked only by the acquisition of superiority.
Sep 202016
Parents, and governments, pursue order, not justice.
Sep 022016
Checks and balances and the separation of powers, the supposed bedrock principles of American government, contradict each other directly.
Aug 182016
Liberalism is like liberality, except with other people’s money.
Aug 152016
Societies toy with dissenters like cats with mice — a few escape, the rest wearied unto death. The short way is more respectful and humane.
Aug 032016
Free speech means, more technically, that the value of any given utterance asymptotically approaches zero.
Jul 202016
It is a feature of America that anyone can grow up to be President. Or perhaps it is a bug.
Jul 152016
Someone is always above the law.
Jul 052016
Liberty is a burden to the fearful.