Saturday, July 11, 2009

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Tecumseh said...

Steyn has a blast. Chuck is such a comic relief.

7/11/2009 7:21 PM
Tecumseh said...

The old rationale for absolute monarchy – Divine Right – is a tough sell in a democratic age. But the new rationale – Gaia’s Right – has proved surprisingly plausible.

Beginning with FDR, wily statists justified the massive expansion of federal power under ever more elastic definitions of the commerce clause. For Obama-era control freaks, the environment and health care are the commerce clause supersized. They establish the pretext for the regulation of everything: If the government is obligated to cure you of illness, it has an interest in preventing you getting ill in the first place – by regulating what you eat, how you live, the choices you make from the moment you get up in the morning.

Likewise, if everything you do impacts “the environment”, then the environment is an all-purpose umbrella for regulating everything you do.

No mo' Nanny State lite. Let's have Nanny State on steroids.

7/11/2009 7:26 PM
Mr roT said...

Steyn's great in diagnosing the 'age of convenience'.

Why does anyone buy this crap religion?

7/12/2009 2:27 AM
Tecumseh said...

Harvard, Algore, and Chuck say so.

7/12/2009 8:29 AM

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