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“Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.” quote by Mark Steyn — Download Open image

“Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.”

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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should…

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A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam…

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“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.”

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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe…

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“But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other than the here and now, who needs to settle disputes at all? All you have to do is manage to defer them till after you're dead--which is the European electorates' approach to their unaffordable social programs.…

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“America is now a land that rewards failure--at the personal, corporate and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If you reward it lavishly as the federal government does, you'll get the Radio City Spectacular of Failure, on ice and with full supporting orchestra. The problem is that, in abolishing failure, you also abolish the possibility…

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