“The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.” IfsGovernmentCareResponsibilityRecordsSeeingStrangeEmbraceFolksSpendingLibertarianCelebrateActivistDeficitHawksAnti Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.” HumansLittlesGovernmentHuman BeingsUnderstoodInstitutionsGood ThingsComplexesGrantedComplexityAssumptionActivistConceptionFragileLackingIntricateImplicitComplex Systems Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
“Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.” GovernmentFacesRolesNotionConservativeActivistFederal Government Author:Robert Draper
“Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.” WorldGovernmentSchoolMedicalIdeologyActivistHardened Author:John Leo
“A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.” ThinkingMenWayMayGovernmentSocialAcceptingGunActivistRight WayFree Man Author:Jeff Cooper