No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The Left relies upon the politics of fantasy to tempt voters. — Michael J. Knowles Fantasy Copy Share Image
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery. — Michael J. Knowles Burdens Copy Share Image
In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
President Trump's greatest political liabilities revolve around questions of personality and character. — Michael J. Knowles Character Copy Share Image
For the Left, when ideology and reality conflict, ideology must win. — Michael J. Knowles Conflict Copy Share Image
No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Politics presents few win-win situations for partisans on either side. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view. — Michael J. Knowles Order Copy Share Image
In more tangible terms, the pumpkin spice latte shares many of the qualities that endear conservative politicians to their supporters and arouse… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The American healthcare system is the worst form of healthcare other than all the other systems that have been tried. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they're going out of style, the United States under President Trump has led… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
According to the politics of fantasy, mankind is on the verge of perfectibility, if only we give the government just a little… — Michael J. Knowles Fantasy Copy Share Image
Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don't wind up in sanctuary states. — Michael J. Knowles Democrats Copy Share Image
Conservative merchandise tends to aim at a point from a place of humor and exuberance, from Trumpy Bear to the 'Make American… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don't elect the president.… — Michael J. Knowles Democracy Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following… — Michael J. Knowles Conventional wisdom Copy Share Image
A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream. — Michael J. Knowles Awaits Copy Share Image
Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Each dollar taxed and spent deprives Americans of the freedom to make their own choices. — Michael J. Knowles Choices Copy Share Image
Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature. — Michael J. Knowles Capitalism Copy Share Image
Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
For decades, the pro-life movement has focused on scientific evidence and ethical arguments. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises. — Michael J. Knowles Abortion Copy Share Image
Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it. — Michael J. Knowles Cult Copy Share Image
Conservatives have always been forthright about our views, whether they brought defeat in 1964 or victory in 1980. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats. — Michael J. Knowles Democracy Copy Share Image
From the beginning, religious faith animated the American quest to explore the heavens. — Michael J. Knowles Adventure Copy Share Image
That process of exposure to diverse opinions isn't 'brainwashing' - it's education. — Michael J. Knowles Brainwashing Copy Share Image
American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance. — Michael J. Knowles Admittance Copy Share Image
Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Unborn babies - that is, fetuses, embryos, and even 'zygotes' - are innocent human beings. — Michael J. Knowles Babies Copy Share Image
The people's love of pumpkin spice and snobbish elites' derision of it suggest a subtle political reality: the pumpkin spice latte is… — Michael J. Knowles America Copy Share Image
A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not… — Michael J. Knowles Age Copy Share Image
Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are… — Michael J. Knowles Democrats Copy Share Image
Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default. — Michael J. Knowles Consequences Copy Share Image