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• ur Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.”  — George Washington

INSIGHT

“A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.”  — Frank Dane

“The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.”  — William H. Davies

“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.”  — Elias Boudinot

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”  — Albert Einstein

“Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men.”  — Dr. Samuel Johnson

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”  — H.L. Mencken

UPRIGHT

“Washington, D.C. is a place where delusions go to thrive. That explains why Congress and the president are now agreed on remedies that will not work, expending money they do not have, to fix a problem that may not exist.”  — Steve Chapman

“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”  — Thomas Sowell

“When the economy does not need a rescue plan and gets one, it’s called ‘campaign spending’. And this $150 billion stimulus package is nothing more than campaign spending on the part of both parties.”  — Rush Limbaugh

“Some Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are preaching economic doom and gloom, disappearing middle class, and failing health care industry. What’s their solution? The short answer is give them more control over our lives.”  — Walter Williams

“It is strange that the qualities we are looking for in a sitting president — thoughtful, calm, and serious — are exactly the qualities that we penalize in those running for president.”  — Rich Galen

“Every candidate who repeats the misleading nonsense that ‘47 million in America have no health care,’ ought to be challenged with hard truth. The number is grossly inflated by including millions who are here illegally and millions of others who have the means to pay for health care insurance but refuse to adjust their budget and lifestyle. And don’t expect any media type to question where in the Constitution Congress derives any authority to dispense health care.”  — Janet LaRue

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“We’re so used to Democrats pushing tax hikes as the answer to all of America’s problems that we were taken aback to find the following words buried in Pelosi’s release on the stimulus deal: ‘Economists estimate that each dollar of broad tax cuts leads to $1.26 in economic growth.’ Gee, that sort of sounds familiar. It’s almost, though not quite, like what the much-reviled supply-side economists have been saying for, oh, 30 years or so. Pelosi, and other Democrats now suddenly touting tax cuts, may be on to something. We might demur on the notion that all tax cuts must be ‘broad’ to be effective. Evidence really lies more strongly with giving tax cuts to those who would start new businesses or expand old ones. But it’s refreshing to hear a Democrat admit the obvious — that tax cuts work. It’s no secret that high tax rates act as a deadweight on the economy by creating absolute losses from which no one gains. Martin Feldstein, head of the National Bureau of Economic Research, estimates that a $1 tax hike costs the economy 76 cents in output. That explains why the economy jumps each time there’s a tax cut.”  — Investor’s Business Daily
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DEZINFORMATSIA

Backwards economics: “How do we stimulate the economy to prevent or shorten a recession? One way would be to repeal the Bush tax cuts two years early, in 2009.”  — Len Burman, director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, writing in The New York Times

Star-struck and drooling: “He’s come from a white family and a black family, and he’s married to a black woman, and they’re cool people. They are really cool. They are Jack and Jackie Kennedy when you see them together. They are cool. And they’re great-looking, and they’re cool and they’re young, and they’re — everything seems to be great... f you’re in [a room] with Obama, you feel the spirit. Moving.”  — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Break “Are journalists rooting for the Obama story?”  — CNN’s Howard Kurtz

Feminism on display: “It’s odd that the first woman with a shot at becoming president is so openly dependent on her husband to drag her over the finish line. She handed over South Carolina to him, knowing that her support here is largely derivative.”  — New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd Break “We all remember when your husband ran, he said two for the price of one. Is that what is happening again here?”  — ABC’s Robin Roberts to Hillary

You’re joking, right?: “Hillary Clinton and John Edwards and Barack Obama are not raging liberals.”  — former CNN anchor Catherine Crier

Terrorism apologist or news reporter?: “Murderous fanatic or hero of radical Islam? 50 year-old Osama bin Laden is an icon of intense hatred and profound reverence.”  — NBC’s Ned Colt

That’s the spirit!: “So that there will be no misunderstanding, it’s time for all the presidential candidates to take a stand on pulling out of Iraq.”  — Helen Thomas

Newspulper Headlines: Breaking News From 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2004: “Anti-Bush Campaign Planned”  — Associated Press

Life Imitates the Onion: “After spending two months accompanying his wife, Hillary, on the campaign trail, former president Bill Clinton announced Monday that he is joining the 2008 presidential race, saying he ‘could no longer resist the urge.”’  — Onion Break “In 1992 Bill Clinton vowed Americans would get ‘two for the price of one’ if they elected him with wife Hillary at his side. Now it is two against one as the Clintons gang up on Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential race.”  — Reuters

Eminent Domain Run Amok: “State Officials Travel to China to Sell Georgia”  — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Of Course if They Are True, He’ll Never Admit It: “Singer Says Rumors That He Is Dead Aren’t True”  — Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Nader to Decide on Presidential Run”  — Newsmax.com (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

You call that civilized?: “[Hillary] and John McCain are very close. They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they’re afraid they’d put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other.”  — First Lady hopeful Bill Clinton

On the endorsement front: “I support Barack Obama because he doesn’t seek to perfect the politics of Swiftboating — he seeks to end it. This is personal for me, and for a whole lot of Americans who lived through the 2004 election. As a veteran, it disgusts me that the Swift Boats we loved while we were in uniform on the Mekong Delta have been rendered, in Karl Rove’s twisted politics, an ugly verb meaning to lie about someone’s character just to win an election.”  — John Kerry

“With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama, we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay... With Barack Obama, we will break the old gridlock and finally make health care what it should be in America — a fundamental right for all, not just an expensive privilege for the few. We will make the United States the great leader and not the great roadblock in the fateful fight against global warming. And with Barack Obama, we will end a war in Iraq that he has always stood against, that has cost us the lives of thousands of our sons and daughters, and that America never should have fought.”  — Ted Kennedy endorsing Obama
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Oh yeah, well shut up: “We’re all proud of the people we have endorsing us. At the end of the day, this is a contest not among our endorsers but among us as individuals. I believe that I have the experience we need to make the changes we need in America.”  — Hillary, downplaying the Kennedys’ endorsements of Obama

Belly Laugh of the Week: “I don’t pay much attention to polls.”  — Hillary Clinton, who in the next breath claimed that polls also show her ahead in “most of the Super Tuesday states.”

VILLAGE IDIOTS

This week’s “Quid Pro Homo” Award: “Gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heterosexual men and women — to make contracts, to have hospital visiting rights, to join together in marriage, and I don’t understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage. Shouldn’t we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to ones partner regardless of sexual orientation?”  — Al Gore

Humor or truth?: “It’s like being with an Irish priest. You start to confess your sins. ‘Father Al, I am not just a noise polluter, I am a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, gulfstream-flying rock star. I’m going to kick the habit. I’m trying father Al, but oil has been very good for me — those convoys of articulated lorries, petrochemical products, hair gel’.”  — U2 lead singer Bono

Moonbat economics: “This is a big heist, this is a big heist. The right wing is in power, the bankers are screwing everyone — the oil companies, Halliburton — this is no f***ing mystery. These people have been after this. It started with Reagan crushing the poor, crushing the unions, rewarding people, putting them into heads of certain departments of the government and then disassembling those departments because they have contempt for the government.”  — actor/“comedian” Richard Belzer

From one big mouth to another: “I think it’s time for [Bill Clinton] to just be quiet. I think it’s time for him to stop. As one of the most outspoken people in America, there’s a time to shut up, and I think that time has come.”  — professional race hustler Al Sharpton

SHORT CUTS

“John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth.”  — Ann Coulter

“There’s losing. There’s losing honorably. And then there’s John Edwards.”  — Charles Krauthammer

“Everyone seems to be campaigning as the candidate of change, but what does that mean exactly? Wouldn’t a depression be a change? How about basing our economy on Communism instead of Capitalism?”  — John Hawkins

“Arnold Schwarzenegger warned of a huge budget deficit Friday. He may order ten percent spending cuts. He doesn’t want to go to Washington to ask for help because he’s afraid if he goes to Capitol Hill he’ll be dragged into a steroid hearing.”  — Argus Hamilton

“Sometimes we become so accustomed to the way things are, we fail to notice how peculiar they happen to be. And for once, I’m not just referring to Clinton, Obama and Edwards.”  — Burt Prelutsky

“It’s down to Obama vs. Clinton, and it’s getting nasty. They hate each other, with the kind of passionate hatred that you see only between two people who hold essentially the same positions on everything. Edwards is still running, but at this point they don’t even bother to put a microphone on him for the debates. He just waves his arms to indicate how he’s going to take on the big corporations.”  — Dave Barry

David Letterman: From “Top Ten Barack Obama Campaign Promises presented by Senator Barack Obama”: I will double your tax money at the craps table; If you bring a gator to the White House, I’ll wrassle it; I’ll put Regis on the nickel; I’ll rename the tenth month of the year “Barack-tober”; I won’t let Apple release the new and improved iPod the day after you bought the previous model; Pronounce the word nuclear, “nuclear”; Three words: Vice President Oprah.

Jay Leno: Have you heard this story? They’re trying to pass a bill now that allows politicians to insist that they be addressed by gender-neutral titles. Is that really necessary? I mean, don’t we already have gender-neutral titles for politicians? “Crook,” “liar,” “adulterer,” “pinhead,” “moron”  — these are all gender-neutral. ... The big issue in South Carolina was lost textile jobs. That’s why Hillary was so stunned that she came in a distant second. In fact, today she said, “I’ve been wearing all of these pantsuits for nothing.” ... Bill was really upset by her second place finish. In fact, he said, “Does this mean I don’t get a third term?” ... Exit polls showed that Bill’s campaigning actually hurt Hillary. I just hope it doesn’t cause any tension in their marriage. ... You can tell John Edwards is a little disappointed with his third place finish. In fact, for 1/millionth of a second, he actually stopped smiling. I don’t want to say that John Edwards seemed phony, but a lot of voters thought Hillary’s Southern accent was more real than his. ... Sylvester Stallone announced today he is endorsing John McCain. I think that’s what he said. He might have said, “Hand me my cane.”

Veritas vos Liberabit — Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families — especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)