The Ponderosa: The difference between Man and Boy

Death before Dhimmitude

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Friday, July 30, 2004

The difference between Man and Boy

We don't recall George H. W. Bush and Robert Dole dwelling on their heroism in WWII.

Contrast that with the Democrat nominee, who cannot pass an ice cream stand without lapsing into reminiscences of Vietnam -- "When I was in Vietnam we were allotted a ration of Heavenly Hash" ... Men vs. Boy ...

The Ponderosa

Friday, July 30, 2004

The difference between Man and Boy

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