The idea that half of us think we’re deprived says more about spiritual emptiness than it does about any financial gap.
—Greg Gutfeld, The Bible of Unspeakable Truths
The world doesn’t need marriage counseling, it needs corporal punishment, and America is the only country left that knows how to spank.
— Greg Gutfeld, The Bible of Unspeakable Truths
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
— H.L. Mencken
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal—instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.
“After the charismatic—and disastrous—Woodrow Wilson presidency, the voters did not elect another president in the next decade who could be considered the least bit charismatic. Let us hope that history repeats itself.”
In most discussions of the problems of American public schools, the low intellectual quality of people who come out of our schools of education is the 800-pound gorilla that keeps getting ignored. Such teachers cannot give their students intellectual abilities that they themselves don’t have.
Thomas Sowell, Townhall
In most discussions of the problems of American public schools, the low intellectual quality of people who come out of our schools of education is the 800-pound gorilla that keeps getting ignored. Such teachers cannot give their students intellectual abilities that they themselves don’t have.
Thomas Sowell, Townhall
“…the mainstream media are so deep in the bunker for Obama, they could ride out a nuclear war without having their Jenga tower fall over.”
Thomas Sowell on the economy:
Have you noticed that what modest economic improvements we have seen occurred during the much-lamented “gridlock” in Washington? Nor is this unusual. If you check back through history, doing nothing has a far better track record than that of politicians intervening in the economy.
With all the talk about people paying their “fair share” of income taxes, why do nearly half the people in this country pay no income taxes at all? Is that their “fair share”? Or is creating more recipients of government handouts, at no cost to themselves, simply a strategy to gain more votes?
People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.
The United States now has the dubious distinction of having the highest corporate tax rate in the world. And people wonder why American corporations are expanding overseas, providing jobs to foreigners. The left may get their jollies attacking “the rich,” but the real victims are other people, who want the jobs that are sent overseas to escape a hostile business climate at home.
To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.
— Thomas Jefferson in a prospectus for his translation of Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy
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