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 MercerSocialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.
Ilana MercerRevive the value of seasoned, stoical masculinity in education. Men in authority are now a threatened minority. Again, and in defense of the pack that piled on Klein, Americaโs progressive schools are overrun by ineffectual females.
Ilana MercerAmerican media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism. Their efforts to create reality on the ground โ instead of reporting on it โ notwithstanding, here's what we know about the inchoate Egyptian uprising: the movement's members hated their ruler and did what was necessary to be rid of him.
Ilana MercerThe much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them.
Ilana MercerRon Paul would have demanded that entire departments be shuttered โ not that the bums merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending). Besides, what a balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in โ that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers.
Ilana Mercer