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- Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross…
- I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco...
- The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the…
- The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in…
- There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a…
- The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something…
- There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his…
- Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
- Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
- I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro…
- I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the…
- Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is…
- There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
- Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
- As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when…
- No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all…
- Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over…
- The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
- Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler,…
- All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
- No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy…
- Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
- Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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