Senator Tim Kaine on Iran

Irving Kristol on the Equality of Opportunity

Ron Paul on the Founders and Liberty

Trump's Pick for EPA Chief Scott Pruitt: Climate Change Dissent Is Not a Crime

Barack Obama on Democracy

Jonathan Turley on Trump Protests and Democracy

The evening after the results became clear that President-Elect Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential Election, thousands of youthful progressive protested in at least seven major cities to taunt Trump.

Protesters did not seem capable to articulate good reasons why they took to the streets. Many reveled in ribaldry or nebulous socialistic slogans.  

While normally talkative New York youths seemed camera shy towards Fox News Channel because "your guy won", the demonstrators were not benignly inclined towards CNN as they shouted obscenities about the press. 

In analyzing the agitations on the Kelly File, Jonathan Turley and the epoynmous hostess of the show lamented the manifestations of the "Cupcake Nation".

These are the same people who demand safe-spaces on campus in case they encounter opinions upon which they disagree, yet everyone must accede to their political will.

H.L. Mencken on Democracy

Dallas Police Chief David Brown on Democracy

H.L. Mencken on Democracy

Aristotle on Politics

Hillary Clinton on Government

During the Hillary 2016 campaign relaunch on Roosevelt Island, former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-AR NY) made progressive proclamations on politics. 

It was interesting that Mrs. Clinton emphasized the importance of Democracy. While our elections are conducted in a democratic manner, the polity of the United States of America is a constitutional federal Republic. One wonders if the 4 "f" that Clinton claims that she's fighting for will recognize the sovereignty of states and "We the People" at its foundation or if she will be the vanguard to change deep seated cultural and religious values to suit her druthers. 

With Hillary's rhetoric about Democracy, does she realize that elections do not involve coronations?  Candidates make themselves available or real vetting from the media, not just staged events in a Scooby van , choreographed questions from rapturous reporters and not limiting access and monitoring the media.

James Madison on Democracies

Andrew Breitbart on Democracy

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on Democracy

Louis L'Amour on Democracy

Alexander Meiklejohn on Politics

Pat Buchanan on Tolerance

Walter Williams on Liberty

P.J. O'Rourke on Democracy

“Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ”
~P.J. O'Rourke

This Is What Democracy (Really) Looks Like

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.  Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.”      (attributed to) Ben Franklin

While attributions to Franklin may not quite be on the money since the term lunch did not enter into common parlance until the 1820s, the meat of this food for thought is still quite fulfilling.   It aptly captures the tyranny of the majority and class warfare epitomized by the ineptocracy currently in power.  To borrow a phrase from the unmasked Occupy Movement "This is what democracy looks like".

The coda of this faux Franklin phrase alludes to the Second Amendment, which protects Americans from tyranny.  It is important to recognize why the Second and the Fourth Amendments were included in the Bill of Rights.  The British tried to enforce burdensome laws on their British American colonies without any input by the citizenry.  When Americans balked at things like the Stamp Act and the Tea Act (1773), the powers that be doubled down on their policies by sending in massive force and forcing the colonists to quarter the Red Coats. Taxation without Representation is more than a slogan that DC Statehood activists have ironically re-appropriated.   The right to keep and bear arms was not about helping hunting but as natural rights which  are backstops against anarchy and organized tyranny to protect property rights.