He [the Statist] Is Unmoved By Reason,

What Was To Be A Relatively Innocuous Federal Government, Operating From A Defined Enumeration Of Specific Grants Of Power, Has Become An Ever-present And Unaccountable Force. It Is The Nation’s Largest Creditor, Debtor, Lender, Employer, Consumer, Contractor, Grantor, Property Owner, Tenant, Insurer, Health-care Provider, And Pension Guarantor. Moreover, With Aggrandized Police Powers, What It Does Not Control Directly It Bans Or Mandates By Regulation.

It Turns Out That Justices Are Also God’s Children; And Being Of This World, Their Makeup Consists Of Actual Flesh And Blood. They Are No More Noble Or Virtuous Than The Rest Of Us, And In Some Cases Less So, As They Suffer From The Usual Human Imperfections And Frailties. And The Court’s History Proves It.

The Oil Industry Is Hardly Free To Operate As Efficiently As It Could Or To Be As Responsive To Consumer Demands As It Would Like. It Has Become, In Essence, A Quasi-state-run Enterprise, Because It Cannot Drill, Transport, Refine, And Store Fuel Without Receiving Government Permission, Complying With Government Regulations, And Paying Taxes At Every Level Or Production.

I Realized That Conservatism Was The Philosophy That Best Suited Me, With Its Emphasis On Individual Liberty, Personal Responsibility, And Merit.

Utopianism Substitutes Glorious Predictions And Unachievable Promises For Knowledge, Science, And Reason, While Laying Claim To Them All.