Quote du Jour

To be on the left today is to look around and see nutty ideas accepted as perfectly reasonable, everywhere and at all times. Speech is violence, but violent acts are just a really neat form of expression. Gender is a social construct, so you can be a boy on Monday and a girl on Tuesday. If Paul Ryan calls for a spending increase that’s less than what Democrats want, in the progressive imagination this amounts to pushing Granny off a cliff. If the federal government considers ending its subsidy for the leading abortion provider in the country, or if a House dress code that didn’t bother Nancy Pelosi is discovered to have lingered on into Ryan’s term, we’re living in The Handmaid’s Tale.

Kyle Smith - And that means Democrats’ time in the wilderness could last a long, long while

One can only hope.

The Quotable Stacy McCain

#FreeStacy Quoting My His Favorite Source

Did you know that there is an online list of quotes by me? Who started compiling my aphorisms at AZ Quotes, I don’t know, but here are a few of my favorites, with links to the original sources:

“Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.”
. . .
“When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren’t the kind of institutions I had in mind.”
. . .
“One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.”
. . .
“Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.”

Not bad. Now go get a few more going.

By the way, wouldn’t this be a good time to use the #FreeStacy hashtagand ask @Twitter @Support to restore @rsmccain? It’s rather annoying to be an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years in the news business, and to know that some whiny complainer’s bogus claim that I was “participating in targeted abuse” should have caused the suspension of an account I’d been using for seven years. Twitter’s project of silencing Hillary Clinton’s critics failed to get her elected, and they should repeal their transparently partisan policy of preventing free speech.

Since I'm not on twitter (a vice I've managed to avoid) I can't help there. However, if it's illegal for Bakers not to write on cakes because of their opinions, it should be illegal for Twitter to practice workplace bias based on opinions. They are a public accommodation in the US every bit as much as bakeries and pizzerias.

Margret Thatcher Dies at 87

One of the great ones. 

"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
Margret Thatcher

...

"But not yet!"
Barack Obama

$#!* Jefferson Didn't Say

"People will see a quote and it appeals to an opinion that they have and if it has Jefferson's name attached to it that gives it more weight," she says. "He's constantly being invoked by people when they are making arguments about politics and actually all sorts of topics."

A spokeswoman for the Guide's publisher said it was looking into the quote. Mr. Norris's publicist didn't respond to requests for comment.

To counter what she calls rampant misattribution, Ms. Berkes is fighting the Internet with the Internet. She has set up a "Spurious Quotations" page on the Monticello website listing bogus quotes attributed to the founding father, a prolific writer and rhetorician who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.

Fake Jefferson came up with an awful lot of favorite sayings...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold...
Bad government results from too much government
The beauty of the Second Amendment... (Quotation)
The Bible is the source of liberty (Quotation)
The Christian god is a three headed monster
Democracy is nothing more than mob rule...
The democracy will cease to exist...(Quotation)
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism
Do you want to know who you are?
An educated citizenry...
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
Every man has two countries - his own and France
Few die, none resign
Government big enough...
If a law is unjust...
If we are to guard against ignorance...
I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars
In matters of style, swim with the current...
Information is the currency of democracy
Jewel among the states
Making this wine vine known to the public
Museum of our soul
The nation was clothed with ample powers...(Quotation)
Near-perfect republic
No duty the Executive had to perform...
No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion...
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude...
The office of citizen
Private Banks
Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp...
Spell a word only one way
Strongest reason for the people to...keep and bear arms...
Superstition of Christianity
That government is best which governs the least. (Quotation)
The two enemies of the people...(Quotation)
Those who hammer their guns into plows...(Quotation)
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government
The web of mutual obligations between generations...(Quotation)
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on (Quotation)
Without God, liberty will not last (Quotation)