Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
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… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share
Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share
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… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
