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Relevance: 45% Posted on: November 6, 2014
As we make sense of this week’s sea change — of the Great Shellacking Democrats took on Tuesday — some caution is in order. In 2006, voters did not choose the Democrats because of what they were or what they promised, but because of what they weren’t: corrupt, clueless Republicans.…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: January 9, 2024
Not everything that we dislike should be illegal. Not everything that we like or want should be made mandatory. To most of us, this is common sense. We lack the totalitarian impulse. But every day, otherwise-inclined people, including lawmakers, notice another aspect of our lives that they decide must no…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: April 13, 2012
Yesterday, I explained how the official title for California’s Proposition 28 tricks voters who favor tougher term limits into supporting a measure that will dramatically weaken those limits. The title’s slipperiness is anything but accidental. It was designed to fool, hiding the fact that the measure doubles the time legislators…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: June 15, 2020
However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter three, p. 24.
Relevance: 45% Posted on: June 18, 2020
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter one, p. 12.
Relevance: 45% Posted on: July 17, 2017
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City's first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: July 17, 2018
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City’s first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: March 27, 2015
Which is worse, paying for stuff you use . . . or being constantly harassed for using it? One consequence of widespread failure to charge market rates for water turns out to be hyper-regulation of hydro-usage, and the penalizing — even criminalizing — of using “too much” H2O. To deal…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: June 27, 2016
Increasingly, folks in government balk at the commonsense requirement for transparency. They don’t like the basic idea of a republic, apparently — that we have rights; folks in government have duties. They are bound to serve us. And allow us to oversee their work. The latest bizarre attempt to wiggle…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: April 12, 2012
When California voters read Proposition 28’s ballot title, they overwhelmingly support the June 5th measure. That support radically dwindles when they learn more. The Public Policy Institute of California released a poll showing 68 percent in favor and only 24 percent opposed. Surveyed Californians were responding to the official ballot…