The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnon’s unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena… — Ilana Mercer Ideas Copy Share Image
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the… — Ilana Mercer Europe Copy Share Image
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off. — Ilana Mercer Bureaucracy 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… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to… — Ilana Mercer Government Copy Share Image
Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf… — Ilana Mercer Animal Copy Share Image
From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous… — Ilana Mercer Adults 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… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like… — Ilana Mercer America Copy Share Image
Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of… — Ilana Mercer Aliens Copy Share Image
free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession… — Ilana Mercer Age Copy Share Image
The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government,… — Ilana Mercer Amendments Copy Share Image
A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge… — Ilana Mercer Bigotry Copy Share Image
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule. — Ilana Mercer Freedom Copy Share Image
Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny. — Ilana Mercer Attachment Copy Share Image
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. — Ilana Mercer Economist Copy Share Image
Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload. — Ilana Mercer Country Copy Share Image
Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very… — Ilana Mercer Existential Copy Share Image
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get… — Ilana Mercer Acting Copy Share Image
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism. — 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 much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of… — Ilana Mercer Economics Copy Share Image
Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the… — Ilana Mercer America Copy Share Image
...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government. — Ilana Mercer Government Copy Share Image
“Our unhappy trek through the wreck of the New South Africa begins with the facts, nothing but the facts.” — Ilana Mercer Truth Copy Share Image
For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and… — Ilana Mercer America Copy Share Image
What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private… — Ilana Mercer Absolutes Copy Share Image
In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along [...] there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.'… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Thus evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation… — Ilana Mercer Climate Copy Share Image
The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed… — Ilana Mercer America Copy Share Image
In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free… — Ilana Mercer Bureaucrats Copy Share Image
Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs… — Ilana Mercer Communication Copy Share Image
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