The Ponderosa: Jerry Falwell, RIP

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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

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Jerry Falwell, RIP

You can tell a lot about a person by the way he reacts to the death of a political rival.

When a devout lefty passes on, a preponderance of us at Free Republic set political differences aside and pray for the soul of the departed.

Contrast that with the giddy reaction of the Nutroots -- granted, many believe that cows have souls -- to Rev. Falwell's passing.

Grow up, kids.

In the mean time, you're [still] free to sin about the country (apologies to Southwest Airlines).

The Ponderosa

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Jerry Falwell, RIP

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