Ilana Mercer Quotes - Page 4

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• B.B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.

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  Kings

  "Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. March 07, 2014.

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• A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.

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  Team, Silly, Hair

  "Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. March 07, 2014.

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• A brave nation fights only because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.

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  Fighting, Brave, Nations

  "Betraying Brave Boys". www.wnd.com. March 26, 2003.

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• Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

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  Two Sides, Coins, Invasion

  "Border Invasion Abroad, Border Betrayal at Home" by Ilana Mercer, www.wnd.com. January 16, 2004.

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• Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

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  Destiny, Attachment, Ideas

  "Coddling Killers". spectator.org. December 29, 2004.

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• Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.

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  America, Courageous, Projects

  "The Declaration No Longer Expresses 'The American Mind'". www.americanthinker.com. July 4, 2017.

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• If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.

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  Government, Hands, Rights

  "Conned About Marriage, Constitution and States' Rights". WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2014.

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• Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

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  Men, America, Doe

  "Libertarian Feminists Make A Move On Von Mises". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

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  Wind Farms, Sound, Backyards

  "In Defense Of The Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.

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• Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

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  Country, Jobs, Government

  "Obama to G-20: Print More Money, Don't Make It". www.wnd.com. June 24, 2010.

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• For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.

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  Men, Bully, World

  "Putin Saves Us From Ourselves". www.wnd.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

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  Rights, Identity, Groups

  "Uber Alec, barking-mad Bashir, death-defying libertarians". www.wnd.com. November 29, 2013.

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• Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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  Queens, Hands, Life And Death

  "Mobocracy vs. Monarchy". www.wnd.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.

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  Party, Writing, Thinking

  "National Review Eunuchs". www.wnd.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.

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  Government, Accountability, Dies

  "Make me Thankful: Don't Enlist!". www.ilanamercer.com. November 27, 2009.

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• The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.

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  Party, Republican, Partnership

  "A Palin 3rd party?". www.wnd.com. January 15, 2010.

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• The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has ”pyromania,” the thief is inflicted with ”kleptomania,” and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ”sex-addict."

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  Sex, Thieves, Disease

  "One Man's Malady, Another Man's Fetish". www.wnd.com. August 04, 2006.

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• Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.

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  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "That Spot Of Bother On The Border". www.wnd.com. May 04, 2007.

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• If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

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  Men, Firsts, Forfeit

  "Addicted To That Rush". www.wnd.com. March 06, 2009.

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