Showing posts with label Jonathan Swift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Swift. Show all posts
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Ah, so Republican pinhead Joe Concha thinks a Democrat win in 2026 would be a loss lol

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Joe Concha never really does get to his point in this column, but he does spread a lot of nincompoopery about like so much manure on a field...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Land of the sooty, home of the knave

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 In those countries that pretend to freedom, princes are subject to those laws which their people have chosen. -- Jonathan Swift
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

The next war's cannon fodder: Students at Wyoming commencement boo Senator Lummis for saying there are only two sexes

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 They will be blown to smithereens in the next war by America's future conqueror, or publicly tortured to death by the victors in a grue...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

The Casino is minting millionaires as we speak

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When stock is high, they come between,   Making by second hand their offers; Then cunningly retire unseen, With each a million in his co...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Russell Kirk's "shop and till conservatives", a bunch of cheats

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"But all these are trifles, if we consider the fraud and cozenage of trading men and shopkeepers." -- Jonathan Swift
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Why no one can get a fair trial in increasingly libertarian America

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If justice stood on the side of the single person, it ought to give good men pleasure to see that right should take place; but when, on the ...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Funny how Enlightened England became hostile to American Presbyterianism, and so ruined itself

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The ruin of a state is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners, and contempt of religion, which is entirely our case at p...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Mighty Dullness Crowned

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"In a dull stream, which moving slow, You hardly see the current flow; When a small breeze obstructs the course, It whirls about for wa...

Romney Likens Bain to Obama Bail Out of Auto Cos.: Rush Livid Romney Makes Newt's Point!

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So Rush is left today simply trying to change the subject to what Romney SHOULD have said, because Newt not only can't be right, he MUST...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Underwater Mortgages: Effectively Half of All, or 25.5 Million, Says Mark Hanson

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Because it's not just a matter of selling for a price which pays off the current note. It's a matter of also paying the realtor 6 pe...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

'Money is the Lifeblood of the Nation'

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"Money, the lifeblood of the nation, Corrupts and stagnates in the veins, Unless a proper circulation Its motion and its heat maintains...
Monday, June 13, 2011

The Turning Currents of Sarah Palin's Vulgarized Mind

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Even after a very long relationship, John Ziegler can't quite seem to put his finger on Sarah Palin's problem in the essay excerpted...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

If We Want More Home Sales, Subsidize Home Ownership, Don't Tax It

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It's an old principle too often forgotten in discussions of economic policy: "If you want less of something, tax it; if you want mo...
Monday, October 4, 2010

On Suffering Women's Suffrage

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In a dull stream, which moving slow, You hardly see the current flow; When a small breeze obstructs the course, It whirls about for want of ...