• "The plans differ; the planners are all alike..."
                                                             – Frederic Bastiat

  • Mrs. Thatcher's departure from British rule befitted her entire reign: blustering in rhetoric and accompanied by very little concrete action. Her rhetoric did bring free-market ideas back to respectability in Britain for the first time in a half-century. The Thatcher accomplishments, however, are a very different story, and very much of a mixed-bag.
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  • The anti-government riots in London at the end of March 1990 were, it must be noted, anti-tax riots, and surely a movement in opposition to taxation can't be all bad. But wasn't the protest movement at bottom an envy-ridden call for soaking the rich, and hostility to the new Thatcher tax a protest against its abstention from egalitarian leveling? Not really.
  • The Australian bureaucracy is infested with left-wing bureaucrats, and the disturbing details in the case of DFAT desk officer Darrell Morris Jr. appears to demonstrate this. Darrell, a member of the Liberal Party, says he was bullied and driven out at DFAT, and his allegations are not difficult to believe.
  • Whenever Hollywood claims it has translated history into a feature film, you can be sure you are getting a large dose of artistic licence that has no historical basis whatsoever. Spielberg's Lincoln though, goes much further. It is a historical fraud being used for political propaganda.

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