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Today: Sat, May 18 2013  -  Last modified: April, 26 2007
 Politics
14 April 2013
 
 
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
by Sean Gabb
 sub-topic» Politicians

She virtually began the war on freedom of choice where smoking is concerned. She started the modern obsession with health and safety as an excuse for controlling our lives. She vastly expended state powers of supervision and control over parenting, and immensely expanded the numbers and powers of social workers.

She made the environmental nonsense politically fashionable. She was the first senior British politician to start wittering about climate change and ozone holes. She doubtless thought she was further stuffing the coal miners. In fact, she was a useful idiot for the ideology best suited to replace socialism as an excuse for Enemy Class domination.

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18 March 2013
 
 
Reasons to be grateful to Václav Klaus
by Luboš Motl
 sub-topic» Politicians

Klaus has been warning about many other undesirable trends in Europe – centralization, loss of democracy etc. – and the relevance of these warnings is getting obvious to most careful observers, too. People who don't like to overlook the obvious must have noticed how many important things have been foreseen by Klaus.

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24 June 2012
 
 
A taste of their own medicine
by The Devil's Kitchen
 sub-topic» Politicians

So, when this anonymous Labour MP whinges that his "financial integrity" is being questioned, my response is "well, whose fault is that? Cry me a fucking river."

And, given their plans to spy on everything we do, when this same anonymous Labour MP then asks...

"Why should they want this information, unless there's some indication that there is something amiss?"

... my reply involves motes, beams and "how the fuck do you like them apples, you totalitarian piece of shit?"

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02 October 2011
 
 
A Quick Question
by Don Boudreaux
 sub-topic» Politicians

And it will never dawn on any of these people who Oooo! and Ahhh! in the presence of a former president that if that mortal, who once sat at the big desk in the Oval Office, were really as magnificent and wonderful and smart and wise and productively creative as he and his handlers and party apologists made him out to be while he was in office, he is now nothing but a bum wasting his remarkable talents that could be used to found and operate a private firm (or multiple firms!) that actually puts to a genuine market test the ‘big’ ideas in which he expressed such assurance while spending other people’s money.

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02 September 2011
 
 
On the Vilification of Enoch Powell
by Sean Gabb
 sub-topic» Politicians

The public reason for why he is so hated by our modern ruling class is that he opposed mass-immigration and multiculturalism. Since the legitimising ideology of this ruling class is based on the claim that “diversity” is strength, and the threat of utter destruction for anyone who disagrees, his opposition might be sufficient reason for his being hated. Even so, much of the hatred rests on the envy of men and women who are themselves uneducated and illiterate and dishonourable and sordid and incompetent. Enoch Powell is hated in part because he dissented from the established view on immigration, but also because he was a shining example of what a statesman ought to be – and of what a statesman often approached to in this country before the present clique took over.

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19 May 2011
 
 
Let's get this David Laws issue right
by The Fat Bigot
 sub-topic» Politicians

Mr Laws chose to act dishonestly and in doing so he forfeited any right to have power over others. He should not still be in Parliament, for him to return to the cabinet would cast a serious blow against the fragile legitimacy of the current coalition government.

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30 January 2011
 
 
The horrid Mrs Browner
by Alan Caruba
 sub-topic» Politicians

In these and countless other unknown ways, Carol Browner has used the reins of power as EPA Director and later as President Obama’s climate advisor to assert EPA and government control over every aspect of the lives of Americans, limiting their choices, and in the process harming the nation’s economy.

Until the nation is released from the grip of such environmental/socialist zealots, its future remains in jeopardy

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14 December 2010
 
 
Wikileaks' Most Damaging Revelation
by Dick Puddlecote
 sub-topic» Politicians

Funny, then, that when someone like Assange gives the public something which they are overwhelmingly in favour of, politicians squeal like stuck pigs, hyperbolise about non-existent dangers, and issue an APB entitled "get the bastard".

Not just in one country, either. Oh no, they all get together and defend their dictatorial selves from inconvenient (as, let's face it, that's about all they are) revelations with death threats; wild accusations of fantasy fatalities (their stock-in trade); before corralling all the forces at their disposal to silence dissent.

The fact that the world's public - from, for want of more international terms, 'Mailites' to 'Guardianistas' - are heavily lined up behind Assange holds no water for these selfish bastards. So they go into self-preservation mode despite compelling evidence of resistance from the global population.

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08 August 2010
 
 
More of the bigotry of Wayne Allyn Root
by CLS
 sub-topic» Politicians

As usual the big mouth, self-absorbed con man from Vegas doesn’t even bother to check out the facts. The center being built is called Cordoba House and does house a mosque along with many other things. It is the work of a Muslim cleric who wanted a community center where Muslims and people of other faiths can meet together. The name Cordoba was picked after the Spanish city where Christians, Jews and Muslims once lived together in peace. It is a repudiation of the sort of fanaticism that we saw on 9/11, and the sort of knee-jerk reactionary thinking of Right-wing bigots like Root.

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