Vox Day nails it. The money quote:

History teaches that the government you control today is the government that those you fear most will control tomorrow. Every muscle that you enjoy flexing today is one that will eventually used to punch you in the face. Far too many elements of the right have forgotten this, even as many leftists conveniently forget that the abuses they decry are the same sort of things they were perpetrating and cheering not so very long ago.

Read the whole thing here.

Not much else going on at the ranch other than working on the house and trying to maintain things at the same time.