Ilana Mercer quotes - page 2

Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing[...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic. (Ilana Mercer)
Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama-his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence-these came from Kansas, not Kenya. View quote
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There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power. View quote
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... we're not all the same. A common liberal refrain ... is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you. View quote
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Government commissions are where accountability goes to die. View quote
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B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach. View quote
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Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope. View quote
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Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny. View quote
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The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system. View quote
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In a free society, the ‘vision thing' is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a ‘visionary' bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government... the poorer and less free the people. View quote
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The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage). (Ilana Mercer)
On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:"Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns-warm or cold-is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it. View quote
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Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin. View quote
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Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder. View quote
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Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game. View quote
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What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell. View quote
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A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct in predicting the fate of freedom after Philadelphia. View quote
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[M]embers of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth. View quote
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From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be. View quote
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Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism. View quote
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A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the Right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional – a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure. (Ilana Mercer)
Progressive policies lead to a regressive society. View quote
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The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education. View quote
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If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market. View quote
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Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language. View quote
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