Penn and Teller interviewed. They are not friends.
AVI begins:
Why is it the folks who are most suspicious of nationalism want to nationalise everything?
From Kristol's Yes, A Period of Consequences - The time for evasion is over.
We’ve allowed—nay, in many cases encouraged—our government to become unlimited in its goals, bloated in its size, and arbitrary in its action. In this respect Obama-care is more the culmination of decades of policy-making than a deviation from them. We’ve indulged in the fatal conceit that we can ask the state to attend to all our cares and invite the government to correct all our perceived problems, without considering either the counterproductive practical consequences ...
Via Thompson's It Pays To Be Unobvious:
In many arts subjects, especially those tethered only loosely to evidence, logic or practical verification, there’s often pressure to avoid the obvious and prosaic, even when the obvious and prosaic is true.
Noonan: Youth Has Outlived Its Usefulness
American politics is desperately in need of adult supervision.
Libs feel we have too much freedom and too many choices. Self-anointed elites want to chose for us. That is not, in my opinion, an American view of life. See Waiting for the Revolution:
Angelo M. Codevilla wonders how long two-thirds of America can possibly be ruled by a well-entrenched elitist third.
One quote from Codevilla:
The polls tell us that only about a fifth of Americans trust the government to do the right thing. The rest expect that it will do more harm than good and are no longer afraid to say so.
While Europeans are accustomed to being ruled by presumed betters whom they distrust, the American people's realization of being ruled like Europeans shocked this country into well nigh revolutionary attitudes.
America does not do the "betters" thing.
