Defending individual liberty against the tyranny of government.
Truth, justice and the American way: liberty without compromise.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. - Frédéric Bastiat
Perry Eidelbus, Der Eidelblogger
Westchester, New York
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
The 2012 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
Last year I was so busy that I didn't get a picture for the first time in years. This year (three weeks ago) I did manage to get a good shot, good enough I didn't have to do my usual fine rotation and crop.
"There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first." ("A Study in Scarlet")
Or in the case of government bailouts, when they all go badly for the taxpayer, why should the next be any different?
"You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government."
- Patrick Henry, 1788
"One can never be too hard on France."
- Don Luskin