I’ve not paid much attention to the silliness going on in the US Senate over the judicial confirmations. It is partisan politics at its worse. And if I hear someone else use the phrase “nuclear option” I’m going to exercise my nuclear option with a nice former Soviet General and show them a thing or two.

That said, Reason gave me some interesting pointers to some of her quotes.

Democracy and capitalism seem to have triumphed. But, appearances can be deceiving. Instead of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance, but only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism. We do not conclude that socialism suffers from a fundamental flaw. We conclude instead that its ends are worthy of any sacrifice – including our freedom….1937…marks the triumph of our own socialist revolution

Curiously, in the current dialectic, the right to keep and bear arms – a right expressly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights – is deemed less fundamental than implicit protections the court purports to find in the penumbras of other express provisions. (citations omitted) But surely, the right to preserve one’s life is at least as fundamental as the right to preserve one’s privacy.

Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized….When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems?

Thanks to the People for the American Way(sic) for pointing me to some of her quotes. Thanks to them I’m now a Brown supporter.