Oneโs life, liberty and the products of oneโs labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.
Ilana MercerThe Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has โpyromania,โ the thief is inflicted with โkleptomania,โ and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a โsex-addict."
Ilana MercerDemonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.
Ilana MercerBarack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama - his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence - these came from Kansas, not Kenya.
Ilana Mercer