Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a prรฉcis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.
P. J. O'RourkeI don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
P. J. O'RourkeAfrican famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.
P. J. O'RourkeThey don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.
P. J. O'RourkeEach child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
P. J. O'RourkeThe principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things โ war and hunger and date rape โ liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.
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