George Santayana – ThisIsCommonSense.org

Sharing

Liberty may be maimed, but not killed; reason may be bent, but not broken.
George Santayana, Egotism in German Philosophy, 1915.

Leave a Reply

Initiative, Referendum and Recall (refresh for more)

New-Fangled Vote Counting
SharingCall me old-fashioned, but when you go to the pols …
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
North Dakota state representatives (and I use that term loosely) …
Winning Too Much?
Sharing“We’re Number 17!!!” This lacks a certain triumphant note. It …
Prop 13 Declared Innocent
SharingYou hear it all the time: California’s in such a …
Another Protected Incumbent
SharingIt’s an impasse worthy of Joseph Heller. The author of …

Term Limits (refresh for more)

When Your Bond Is Your Bond
SharingRemember the Alliance for Bonded Term Limits? I talked about …
Coburn’s Terms
SharingOver the weekend, as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kent.) was single-handedly …
Eternal Vigilance
SharingThere have always been prophets of doom. Thomas Malthus predicted …
Tupperware Really Locks You In
SharingPlastics: yesterday’s future, today’s convenience. Reading a report from Jefferson …
Indicting Incumbency
SharingHow does that old, pithy anti-term limits slogan go, again? …

Thought of the Day

The destructive work of totalitarian machinery, whether or not this word is used, is usually supported by a special kind of primitive social philosophy. It proclaims not only that the common good of ‘society’ has priority over the interests of individuals, but that the very existence of individuals as persons is reducible to the existence of the social ‘whole’; in other words, personal existence is, in a strange sense, unreal. This is a convenient foundation for any ideology of slavery.
Leszek Kołakowski, “Totalitarianism and the Virtue of the Lie,” as quoted in Is God Happy? Selected Essays(2013), Basic Books, p. 57.

— Leszek Kołakowski

Memes (refresh for more)

Guess Which is Real.
NOTE: 100 million human beings were killed by communist ideologues …
Net Neutrality Lunacy
“The very same government that couldn’t even build a functional …
9 Dangers of “Democratic Socialism”
First… some definitions: Socialism advocates the public ownership and control of business …
Corporate influence. . .
Corporations can buy unfair favors from government…because government has unfair …
Madison on Perpetual War
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, …

Leszek Kołakowski

Constitution, huzzah?

A Done Decision

Pander, Please

The French King Flip Flap

ATF’s 115-Year Mistake

Junk Force

Leave a Reply Cancel reply