A Thousand Words

From The NYT, but why bother? Everything one needs to know:

Hold it, just one quote & note:

“The foundation of libertarian thinking is private property as a limit on state action,” David Bernstein, a libertarian law professor, explained to Talking Points Memo, the popular political blog. “So if a private business chooses to discriminate, a typical libertarian would say that’s a business owner’s right to do so.”

That's worth some words, as it demonstrates so well that the principled philosophy these fools so nobly espouse is ass-backwards. 180° wrong. Which side is reality-based, & which is deluded?

And for self-flagellators only (You won't be able to take this, weaklings!):

The forces of big government are entrenched and enjoy the full arsenal of the administration's money and influence. Our leaders in Washington, aided by the unprecedented economic crisis of recent years and the panic it induced, have seized the moment to introduce breathtaking expansions of state power in huge swaths of the economy, from the health-care takeover to the financial regulatory bill that the Senate approved Thursday.

We do not want to hear "health-care takeover" until the insurance cos. have been nationalized & the National Guard is occupying their headquarters & summarily executing the executives. Nor do we want to hear about the "unprecedented economic crisis." We would, however, pay to hear Mr. Brooks' death rattle.

UPDATE: Refutation of paranoiac fool Brooks at PuffHo.