[a] Country Without A Word

If You Think Shrinking Government And Getting It Less Involved In Your Life Is A Hallmark Of Tyranny It Is Only Because You Are Either Grotesquely Ignorant Or Because You Subscribe To A Statist Ideology That Believes The Expansion Of The State Is The Expansion Of Liberty.

In The Weeks Prior To The War To Liberate Afghanistan, A Good Friend Of Mine Would Ask Me Almost Every Day, “why Aren't We Killing People Yet?” And I Never Had A Good Answer For Him. Because One Of The Most Important And Vital Things The United States Could Do After 9/11 Was To Kill People. Call It A “forceful Response,” “decisive Action” ' Whatever. Those Are All Nice Euphemisms For Killing People. And The World Is A Better Place Because America Saw The Necessity Of Putting Steel Beneath The Velvet Of Those Euphemisms.

The Founders Understood That Democracy Was Important, But If You Didn't Filter It Through A Republican System You'd Be Just As Likely To End Up With A Tyranny Of The Majority As You Would With A Healthy Society. Don't Worry, I Won't Quote The Federalist Papers, But Trust Me, It's In There.

Forests Are Breaking Out All Over America. New England Has More Forests Since The Civil War. In 1880, New York State Was Only 25 Percent Forested. Today It Is More Than 66 Percent. In 1850, Vermont Was Only 35 Percent Forested. Now It's 76 Percent Forested And Rising. In The South, More Land Is Covered By Forest Than At Any Time In The Last Century. In 1936 A Study Found That 80 Percent Of Piedmont Georgia Was Without Trees. Today Nearly 70 Percent Of The State Is Forested. In The Last Decade Alone, America Has Added More Than 10 Million Acres Of Forestland.

Liberals And Leftists Have Been Dismissing Inconvenient Facts By Attacking Motives For Generations. In The 1930s, '40s, And '50s, Soviet Spies And Abettors Attacked The Motives Of Their Accusers Because The Fact Of Their Guilt Was Undeniable. In The 1960s, Over A Thousand Psychiatrists Who'd Never Even Met Barry Goldwater Signed A Petition Saying The Gop Candidate Was Too Mentally Unstable To Be President.