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" It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' "

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" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "

" Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. "

" People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. "

" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "

" The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' "

" It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. "

" Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. "

" Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. "

" Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. "

" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "

" In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. "

" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "

" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "

" Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. "

" Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. "

" There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. "

" One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. "

" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "

" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. "

" The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. "

" The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. "

" All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. "

" If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say. "

" The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' "

" You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody. "

" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "

" Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. "

" Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "

" Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. "