Quotes June 29 2010
Editor selected quotations:
On individual liberty:
It is individuals, and not entities, who reason and act, and if there is to be any earnest discussion on the topic of individual freedom, it seems it must of a necessity include discussion of individual culpability, as well…It is time to put to rest the claim that libertarianism and free market capitalism are solely concerned with a powerful elite, profiting at the expense of masses. It is time for liberty and responsibility to again walk hand in hand. -Joshua Pelton-Stroud
On federal power:
An honest reading of the Constitution with an original understanding of the Founders and Ratifiers makes it quite clear that the federal government has no constitutional authority to override state laws on marijuana. All three branches of the federal government, however, have interpreted (and re-interpreted) the commerce clause of the Constitution to authorize them to engage in this activity, even though there’s supposedly no ‘legal’ commerce in the plant. At best, these arguments are dubious; at worst an intentional attack on the Constitution and your liberty. -Michael Boldin
On BP and the oil spill:
…when someone defends BP’s right to due process its right not to have the government intimidate $20 billion out of them, that is not a defens of BP’s behavior in the gulf is it? BP should pay for all the damage it caused, but it should pay for it under the law – not under some ad hoc system that the President and the Vice President just concocted for this crisis. -Judge Andrew Napolitano
What I don’t like is big business and government being in bed together… BP is not a free market company… they depend on our military and they depend on us and they like cap and trade… I’m very suspicious of the whole mess. -Ron Paul
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