23 Replies to “Liberty And Tyranny”

  1. Ah yes, Mark Levin, “The Great One”. Love him! He comes across as snarky on his radio show, but what he says makes perfect sense. He shouts into his microphone when things get under his skin, much like we might yell at the radio (as Kate says) when we hear leftist crap spewed at us. He’s definitely one of the good guys.

  2. “Well, let me ask you about another semi-related question here. A lot of conservatives are saying one area where we’d like to push back against the statists is the schools, Hollywood, and the mainstream media. How do we do that? What’s the best way conservatives can start pushing back in those areas and start to level the playing field a little bit?”
    I’ll take a crack at it. How about not alienating everyone under 45 years old.

  3. There’s an absolutely marvelous product called “Sirius” that allows me to listen to Mark Levin broadcast live as I type this. He’s currently railing against Brain Ross of ABC news for making public two military psychologists who helped interrogate terrorists.
    If you have never heard Levin or John Gibson, Mike Church or Andrew Wilkow, go out and spend 50 bucks on a satellite radio now!

  4. Mark Levin certainly is emphatic when laying out the truth about how freedom and security in the US (and the world) is being undermined. He doesn’t pull any punches when exposing the liars and terrorist supporters.
    He is like a lawyer in a court of law driving home a point with irrifutable logic and articulate passion.
    He is, in fact, a constitutional lawyer who worked in Regans administration and has offered to defend (pro bono) any one of the Bush admin’s lawyers who researched the use and legality of enhanced interrogation and are now being scapegoated by the Obama admin.
    He does use mockery and ridicule against the lunatic left and their unhinged attacks. He’s the voice of many – including people under 45.
    Like Ezra Levant conforonting the HRC thought police he doesn’t fall prey to “The Tyranny of Nice”. Love them both.
    Fortunately podcasts of his shows are available on his website. Hate to miss one of them.

  6. As I’ve not been a talk-radio listener, I only became acquainted with Mark Levin a couple weeks back when a friend sent me a piece which really impressed me. My wife, who is generally apolitical, picked it up, raved over it, and MADE ME order it at amazon.ca. You can imagine my surprise. And now to learn it’s sold a million!
    Co-incidentally, I started it last night. This cat is razor sharp; not at all surprised to learn that he was a constitutional lawyer. His writing is on rails and the book’s a veritable page-turner.
    I strongly approve of his use of the word “statist” in lieu of liberal. It nicely captures the nastiness. We should all adopt this practice.
    OT, but if you want a great and joyous laugh check out that other constitutional lawyer Ann Coulter’s latest piece on torture. You will laugh out loud all the way thru, promise.

  9. I just finished the chapter on “Eco-Statism.” My Eco-worshiping brother would explode if he were to read the chapter – it’s that good!
    Gonna’ buy a couple more copies of the book to share as gifts.

  10. “I’ll take a crack at it. How about not alienating everyone under 45 years old.”
    No sale. How about not allowing under 45 year olds to vote if they’re going to be that obstinate? How about we just sell our surplus youth to China?
    Parenthetically, in Canada age is positively correlated with Liberal voting. We’re possibly the only civilization in history where the elders are more left wing than the youth.
    Quite the Levin sweetheart society here, a little too enthusiastic to be organic.

  12. “Well, let me ask you about another semi-related question here. A lot of conservatives are saying one area where we’d like to push back against the statists is the schools, Hollywood, and the mainstream media. How do we do that? What’s the best way conservatives can start pushing back in those areas and start to level the playing field a little bit?”
    Fantasy…..the lefties control the media, hollywood and the schools and they jealously, and efficiently guard them against any sanity infiltrating.

  13. I’m with ya all the way Iron Man. I’ve got 4 Sirius units and listen to Gibson, Hannity, Levin, O’Reilly, etc. every day.

  14. Just finished Ezra’s book and started up on Levin’s.
    “I strongly approve of his use of the word “statist” in lieu of liberal. It nicely captures the nastiness. We should all adopt this practice. ”
    Me No
    Totally agree, MeNo.,we should all adopt this much more accurate description.
    Yeah Whatever, buy it, read it, and maybe people will understand what you’re trying to say.

  15. “I strongly approve of his use of the word “statist” in lieu of liberal.”
    Yeah (?), like Conservative Party of Canada is some sort of anti-statist organization dismantling bureaucratic influence on lives of private people.

  16. xiat: “Yeah (?), like Conservative Party of Canada is some sort of anti-statist organization dismantling bureaucratic influence on lives of private people.” — Not exactly, but conservatives are less likely to favour things like state-run daycare state controlled/run radio and television, and state manipulation of the marketplace (e.g. carbon taxes). It’s like the “state” if necessary, but not necessarily the state.
    In Canada it is particularly hard to ween ourselves from government involvement in things in that stateism is so tied in with “Liberal values”. I keep remembering a few years back when the Liberals were going to fix the homeless problem in communities. After one year, they got as far as setting up their Ottawa offices, then they turned to solving the problem of how to track the homeless as the moved from shelter to shelter. I don’t know if the homeless every benefited from this initiative. There was a similar problem in Baltimore. Initiatives in the locally community were very effectively making inroads into a downtrodden neighborhood. The government got involved and progress stopped — suddenly, people who just wanted to paint a fence or do clean-up had to deal with the bureaucracy. That’s one problem with stateism. The other is the tendency to do all kinds of stuff that nobody need doing — like checking the scales at weightwatchers to make sure they are all using metric. (This happened to a local group I know of — I think there was a whole unit of government monitoring the weight watcher groups!) It is so sad.

  17. LindaL
    Apparently that government unit hasn’t noticed the atrocities being committed by the CFL. The CBC was wise not acquire the Grey Cup. Until they change the field from 110 yards to 100 meters, and from 10 yards to 9 meters for a first down we shouldn’t be subsidizing this American style game.

  19. LindaL
    The difference between Liberals and Conservatives is whether to expand statism right away or do it Stephen Harper way: upholding “achievements” of liberal mentality in Canada and let it creep up incrementally. We have state run health care system, we have the government that propagates the delusion of control of the economy, property rights tempered, heavy and complex taxation in the name of collectivist betterment. Perhaps, it is the nature of the beast that it can not be changed politically as much as hereditary monarchy and feudal system could not transform itself when they encountered new technological, economic and philosophical conditions.
    This is a different subject, but the whole new generation is growing which will have enormous problem to belong to a state they do not voluntarily subscribe to, to participate in a community where “moderation” is applied with a heavy hand, where an individual is just a de-humanized entity at the mercy of bureaucracy just because his/her geographic location. They will ask ” who are you to tell me when the state is necessary for me (generation)?”

  20. xiat Neither Stephen Harper nor any other Conservative is in a position to move Canada away from its tendency to collectivism. Most Canadians are supportive of state health care — I am, though I would also prefer to have private care as an option for at least some services. In any event, there is little Harper can do to alter the Canadian view of the role of the state. Anyone in power, particularly in a minority government, must reflect the middle ground. I think the only practical thing is to show some restraint where possible in the expansion of state incursion into the private domain and mitigate the negative effects of statism as much as possible.

  21. don’t need sirus. you can listen all over the net without additional cost.

  23. The kind of books that should be in every conservatives library

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