Some goodies from Ol' Remus

Woodpile Report

I get gasping, horrified protestations that I want to take food from the mouths of babes I didn't sire. Or have my sanity questioned about how could I be so stupid to not want to "invest" in the higher education of some person I've never met.
--Chief Instructor at bisonrma.blogspot.com

Political combat has never been more vicious. The tactics in use have descended well below mere slander and defamation. Actual corpses have already accumulated at the margins. More will follow.
--Francis Porretto at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com

The right to privacy rests largely on a presumption of innocence. It assumes that — in the absence of evidence of wrongdoing — an individual has a right to shut his front door and tell other people (including government) to mind their own business. Today, this assumption has been twisted inside out so that a desire for privacy means you have something to hide, says --Wendy McElroy in this article, Your Privacy Is Yours, at Whiskey and Gunpowder.

Sovereignty takes another hit - The World Trade Organization issued a final ruling today against the U.S. country-of-origin labeling law... Now Congress must gut or change the law to avoid the application of punitive trade sanctions, says
--Rebekah Wilce in this article at PolicyMic.

As suddenly as Obama began attacking the Supreme Court, he as suddenly dropped the subject and remained quiet... It was extremely odd for a conservative justice to side with the liberal wing of the Supreme Court. We know it is odd that Roberts literally had to rewrite the law in order to fit his interpretation, saysKris Zane in this article, Did Obama And The Supreme Court Collude?, at The Western Center for Journalism.

Islamic apologists and Western oikophobes scoff and spit and snort that anyone would dare draw equivalencies between the transatlantic and the Arab slave trades, yet the historical record laughs in their faces, says Jim Goad in this article, Islam’s Role in Slavery, at Taki's Magazine.

Utah - People who produce $1000 or more worth of food have an impact on the food market, and the USDA wants to know about what you are doing in your backyard... Survivalist.com points out that the Utah Garden Challenge is linked to the United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development plan for totalitarian control, says Cassandra Anderson in this article, Utah Garden Challenge Actually Government Registration In Disguise, at Alt-Market.

Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't.
--H. L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

Who believes that punishing the uninsured with a fine paid to the IRS empowers the powerless?
--Daniel Flynn at frontpagemag.com

Bank of America: for every $11.50 they make defrauding customers, they pay $1 in fines.
--Max Keiser at maxkeiser.com

Dismissal of the American people's intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its principal article of faith, its claim to the right to decide for others, is precisely that it knows things and operates by standards beyond others' comprehension.
--Angelo Codevilla at spectator.org