Something To Think About Archive

According to tennis great Billie Jean King: “Champions practice their strength. Concentrate on what you’re strong at and practice it.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies’ over-the-top criticism of the Supreme Court borders on ridiculous when he uses terms like “corrupt and illegitimate.” But he and other Democrats use those terms to legitimize their desire to pack the Court with three more Justices of their choosing, assuming they win the White House and the Senate, and then have lower courts be the arbitrator of which cases can come before SCOTUS rather than letting them determine their own docket. All this hysteria ignores the simple mandate of the Court, which they adhere to: independent rulings based upon the Constitution. Period.

Calamity follows Apathy.

Journalist and defender of free speech and civil liberties Elmer Davis said: “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”

As the late Senator Eugene McCarthy once noted: “The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.”

Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute notes that “It is easy to resent the billionaire. Critics praise the billionaire when they give money away but condemn the process that made the money possible. The social contribution of an entrepreneur… occurs when customers gain, workers earn, suppliers sell, competitors improve, and resources move to better uses.”

Thomas Edison once observed that “We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

We get a little nervous when Bernie Sanders and the White House start singing from the same hymnal, that being the government taking stakes in businesses a la China, as Sanders is proposing in legislation that will give the government a 50% ownership stake in AI companies and their governing boards. To be fair, the White House started it by insisting that it get a piece of the action with the Intel bailout and approval of Nvidia and AMD export deals. But, can you imagine politicians, who can’t even balance the budget or build a train between the Bay Area and L.A., running high tech companies? Neither can we.

Tennis great Billie Jean King believes that “Everything you do, winning or losing, good or bad, it’s feedback, not failure.”

It’s been said that “Old age is when you realize that you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.”

According to Mark Twain: “Few things are harder to put with than a good example.”

Marcus Aurelis defined the “art of living” as “more like wrestling than dancing.”

“We must believe in luck.” Noted French poet and playwright Jean Cocteau, “For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”

We thought that the big, beautiful ballroom at the White House was supposed to cost “only” $200 million? Now it’s $400 million and still supposedly fully paid for by private donors; including the security enhancements that the Administration is now seeking $1 billion from Congress to finish the project.

Publisher Malcom Forbes said: “Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.”

According to psychologist and author Susan Jeffers, “There seems to be an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.”

Mark Twain once noted that “It is easier to stay out than to get out.”

Pliny the Younger wrote: “The popularity of a bad man is as treacherous as he is himself.”

According to the late Hawaiian singer Iz: “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. You don’t have to have a college degree, to know what is right and what is wrong.”

According to former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, state socialism doesn’t create, it allocates by those that favor their own interests and network. “American free-market capitalism generates,” notes Noonan. It allows things to be brough to life. Socialism merely distributes what is.”