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It is amazing how many people seem to think that the
government exists to turn their prejudices into laws.
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I don't understand how people who cannot predict the weather five days in advance can predict the climate decades from now.
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Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
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Republicans did win the Civil War. That’s why there is no more slavery. It was a Republican president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a Republican-controlled Congress that voted for the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery.
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No group votes more solidly for the Democrats than blacks - and no group suffers more as a result than blacks.
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Images of lynching and Jim Crow laws that made blacks sit in the back of buses are used against Republicans, even though the “solid South” was solidly controlled by Democrats during that era.
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The real danger to us all is when govt not only exercises the powers that we have voted to give it, but also exercises additional powers that we have never voted to give it. That is when “public servants” become public masters. That is when govt itself has stepped over the line.
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Barack Obama mastered the art of keeping black voters aroused while keeping white voters soothed - thanks in part to the gullibility of much of the public, who mistake geniality and glib rhetoric for honesty and good will.
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It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the U.S., if the govt can punish you for exercising those rights. & it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on govt officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Teachers who think that they have a right to use other people's children as guinea pigs for social experiments should be fired.
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How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it.
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The next time you hear an alarming speech about “global warming” on Earth Day, just remember that the first Earth Day featured alarms about the danger of a new ice age.
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If by conservatism you mean belief in free markets, limited government, and traditional morality, including religious influences, then these are all things that the Fascists opposed just as much as the Left does today.
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The Constitution cannot protect you, if you don't protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
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What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people - like themselves - need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.
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The endlessly repeated argument that most Americans are the descendants of immigrants ignores the fact most Americans are NOT the descendants of ILLEGAL immigrants.
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What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people - like themselves - need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.
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In the 1960s, a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. If we are going to talk about history, let’s at least get the facts right.
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Government’s power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
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Why do actors—people whose main talent is faking
emotions—think that their opinions should be directing the course of political events in the real world?
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All is not lost. But all could be lost — especially if too many of us take freedom for granted and focus our attention on other things, like electronic gadgets and the antics of celebrities
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The anger of Americans who feel betrayed by their own elected officials is not a small thing. It goes to the heart of what self-government by “we the people” is supposed to mean.
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The road to Utopia has repeatedly turned out to be the road to hell, in countries around the world.
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Politicians have learned to call their spending of the taxpayers’ money “investment,” even when it is just pouring money down a bottomless pit, in order to win votes from the recipients.
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The phrase “social justice” has stopped many people from thinking for at least a century — and counting.
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Inflation is a quiet but effective way for the government to transfer resources from the people to itself, without raising taxes.
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The first time I flew into London, I was stirred by the
thought that, in these skies during World War II, a thousand men of the Royal Air Force saved Western civilization. Today, I wonder how many of our young people have any idea what that was all about, given how little time...
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As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom - and all our freedom - to be eroded away, bit by bit. Our children and grandchildren may yet come to see the Constitution as just some quaint words from the past ...
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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don’t know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
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Among the items on the agendas of the Fascists in Italy and/or the Nazis in Germany were (1) government control of wages and hours of work, (2) higher taxes on the wealthy, (3) government-set limits on profits, (4) government care for the elderly, (5) a decreased emphasis on ...
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Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is the biggest question for this generation.
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If there is one moment that symbolized our degeneration, it was when an enraged mob gathered in front of the Supreme Court and a leader of the United States Senate shouted threats against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying “You won’t know what hit you!”
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Someone once said that a democratic society cannot survive for long after 51% of the people decide that they want to live off the other 49%. Yet that is the direction in which we are being pushed by those who are promoting envy under its more high-toned alias of "social justice."
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Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
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Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
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No American government can take away all our freedoms at one time. But a slow and steady erosion of freedom can accomplish the same thing on the installment plan.
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Despite the left's portrayal of themselves as champions of the people, they consistently try to move decisions out of the hands of the general public and into the hands of officials insulated from the voters, such as unelected federal judges and anonymous bureaucrats ...
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s
achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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There was a time where we honored those who created the prosperity and the freedom we enjoy. Today we honor the complainers and sue the creators. Perhaps that is inevitable in an era where we no longer count our blessings, but instead count all of our unfulfilled wishes.
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Some people said that having Joe Biden as Vice President meant that President Obama had someone with many years of foreign policy experience. What they ignored was that Biden had decades of experience being wrong on foreign policy issues, time and time again.
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What “multiculturalism” boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
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We can only imagine how many future generations will be paying the price—and not just in money—for the bright ideas and clever rhetoric of our current administration.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them
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While it is true that you learn with age, the down side is that what you learn is often what a damn fool you were before.
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As a black man, I am offended when white people take the likes of Al Sharpton seriously—or pretend to.
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Have we become a country whose leaders are charlatans, and whose people are sheep?
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the notion that Communists and Fascists were at opposite poles ideologically was not true, even in theory, much less in practice.
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Rudolph Giuliani, when he was the Republican mayor of New York, probably saved more black lives than any other human being, by promoting aggressive policing against hoodlums, which brought the murder rate down to a fraction of what it was before.
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Income taxes only transfer money from your current income to the government, but it does not touch whatever money you may have saved over the years. With inflation, the government takes the same cut out of both.
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Black votes matter to many politicians - more so than black lives. That is why such politicians must try to keep black voters fearful, angry and resentful. Racial harmony would be a political disaster for such politicians.
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A careful definition of words would destroy half the agenda of the political left and scrutinizing evidence would destroy the other half.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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The left's vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of themselves, as superior beings pursuing superior ends. In the United States, however, this vision conflicts with a Constitution that begins, "We the People..."
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Threats and violence were the way the Nazis came to power in Germany. Freedom is not free. If you can’t be bothered to vote against storm-trooper tactics — regardless of who engages in them, or over what issue — then you can forfeit your freedom.
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It is hard to think of any word that has confused more issues than the word "rights." Nowadays, almost anything that anybody wants is called a "right" -- a magic word that does away with the need for evidence, logic or even common sense.
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Some Americans will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences.
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
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Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question — and the biggest question for this generation.
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People of every race and color were enslaved -- and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed.
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The scariest thing about politics today is not any particular policy or leaders, but the utter gullibility with which the public accepts notions for which there is not a speck of evidence, such as the benefits of “diversity,” and innumerable other fashionable dogmas.
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People sometimes ask if I have tried to convince black
“leaders” to take a different view on racial issues. Of course not. I wouldn’t spend my time trying to persuade the mafia to give up crime. Why should I spend time trying to convince race hustlers to give up victimhood? It’s
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Inflation takes the same percentage from the poorest person in the country as it does from the richest.
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what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.
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Some Americans will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences.
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Too often what are called “educated” people are simply
people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy covered buildings.
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When I was growing up, we were taught the stories of people whose inventions and scientific discoveries had expanded the lives of millions of other people. Today, students are being taught to admire those who complain, denounce, and demand.
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Bull Connor, who turned police dogs and fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators, was a Democrat. So were other Southern segregationists. In those days, you could go hundreds of miles through the Jim Crow South without seeing a single Republican official. ...
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Soviet communism is now history but ppl who talk equality and practice elitism, who wrap their own selfishness in the mantle of idealism, and who sacrifice others on the altar of their own vision without hesitation are not only still with us but have become the norm on the left.
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Those on the left may not be against freedom in general. But, at every turn, they find the freedoms granted by the Constitution of the United States hampering the left's agenda of imposing their superior wisdom and virtue on the rest of us.
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Freedom in general cramps the government's style.
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Why have a national debt ceiling if it doesn't really put a ceiling on the national debt?
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No matter how much people on the left talk about
compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Much of what are called “social problems” consists of the fact that intellectuals have theories that do not fit the real world. From this they conclude that it is the real world which is wrong and needs changing.
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No matter where in the world our ancestors came from, we today are almost invariably better off because they came to America.
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In Mussolini’s words, “The mass will simply follow and submit.”
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Racism is kept alive mainly by the people who use it for an excuse or to keep minority communities fearful or resentful enough to turn out as a voting bloc on election day.
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Both Democrats and Republicans are responsible for failing to take control of the borders.
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Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who “speak truth to power” but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
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It is self-destructive for any society to create a situation
where a baby who is born into the world today automatically has pre-existing grievances against another baby born at the same time, because of what their ancestors did centuries ago.
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Most people who want to redistribute wealth don’t want to talk about how that wealth was produced in the first place. They just want “the rich” to pay their undefined “fair share” of taxes. This “fair share” must remain undefined because all it really means is “more.”
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Thanksgiving may be our most old-fashioned holiday. Gratitude itself seems out of date at a time when so many people feel “entitled” to whatever they get—and indignant that they didn't get more.
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There is much discussion of the haves and the have-nots, but very little discussion of the doers and the do-nots, those who contribute and those who merely take.
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Black adults, during the years when I was growing up in Harlem, had far less education than black adults today — but far more common sense.
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A Constitutional government does not depend on the Constitution but on us. To the extent that we allow clever people to circumvent the Constitution, while dazzling us with rhetoric, the Constitution will become just a meaningless piece of paper, as our freedoms are stolen from us
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One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims.
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People who call themselves "progressives" claim to be forward-looking, but a remarkable amount of the things they say and do are based on looking backward.
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Voters need to consider what elections are for. Elections are not held to allow voters to vent their emotions. They are held to choose who shall hold in their hands the fate of hundreds of millions of Americans today and of generations yet unborn.
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Freedom is not free. It requires, at a minimum, maturity and a sense of the realities of life.
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Some people seem to think that the Supreme Court has banned abortions. It has done nothing of the sort. The Supreme Court has in fact done something very different, something long overdue and potentially historic.
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Poverty is obscene. It is poverty that needs to be reduced —and increasing a country's productivity has done that far more widely than redistributing income by targeting "the rich."
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How did we get to the point where many people feel that the America they have known is being replaced by a very different kind of country, with not only different kinds of policies but very different values and ways of governing?
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The Romans had bread and circuses to keep the masses passive and unthinking. We have electronic gadgets, drugs and pornography. Like the Roman Empire, we too may decline and fall.
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If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
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When it comes to racial issues, liberals tend to take the side of those blacks who are doing the wrong things — hoodlums the left depicts as martyrs, while the right defends those blacks more likely to be the victims of those hoodlums.
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It was precisely these dictators’ (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot) presumptions of their own vastly greater knowledge and wisdom than that of ordinary people which led to such staggering tragedies for others.
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Those who want to take our money and gain power over us have discovered the magic formula: Get us envious or angry at others and we will surrender, in installments, not only our money but our freedom.
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This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return – a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.
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How anyone can argue in favor of being non-judgmental is beyond me. To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of the principle.
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