In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.
Ilana MercerFrom dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.
Ilana MercerThe rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.
Ilana MercerJefferson 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.
Ilana MercerSocialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.
Ilana MercerWe're not all the same. A common liberal refrain is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you.
Ilana Mercer