You Know Those Navy Seals, They Weren't

When I See Hipsters Wearing Mao Hats Or Lenin T-shirts, I'm Grateful. It's Like Truth-in-labeling. For Now I Know You Are: Woefully Ignorant, Morally Stunted, Purposively Asinine, Or All Three.

[libertarianism] Is About Curbing State Power To Let People Be And Do What They Want. Liberalism Is About Using State Power To Make People Do And Be What Liberals Want. And That Makes All The Difference In The World.

But There's A Fourth Interpretation: Obama Can't Leave His Comfort Zone. No President Since Woodrow Wilson Has Been As Enamored Of Abstract Ideas Or More Sure That Disagreement With Him Is Proof Of Ignorance, Bad Faith Or Dogmatism. As A Candidate, He Insisted His Real Opponent Was 'cynicism,' And In His Address Last Week, He Returned To This Trite Formulation, Insisting Again He Was Bravely Battling The Cynics.

The More You Socialize The Costs Of Personal Liberty, The More License You Give Others To Regulate It.

(j)ust To Clarify: If You Go Into Every Situation Saying There's Absolutely Nothing Worth Fighting Over, You Will Inevitably End Up On A Cot Sleeping Next To A Guy Named Tiny, Bringing Him Breakfast In His Cell Every Morning, And Spending Your Afternoons Ironing His Boxers. Or, In The Case Of The French, You Might Spend Your Afternoon Rounding Up Jews To Send To Germany, But You Get The Point.