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Category: Thought of the Day

  • ESPN’s Random Act of Feminism

    By Selwyn Duke It’s really hard to know today where the stupidity ends and the propaganda begins. MSNBC recently made news by labeling infamous segregationist George Wallace a Republican during a recent television broadcast. Now ESPN has followed suit, with a random act of feminism.  On the sports network’s Friday US Open golf telecast, there…

  • Thomas Jefferson Said . . . 1/16/08

    "A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

  • Thought of the Day – The Wisdom of Edmund Burke

    The following are select quotations from the great Irish orator and statesman, Edmund Burke (1729-1797). On Freedom . . . Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,—in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,—in proportion as their soundness and…

  • Thought of the Day – Lawyers and Legality

    The following is from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).  Read it and see if it seems familiar. I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they…