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" Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? "

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" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

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" Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. "

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" President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again. "

" What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. "

" A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely. "

" Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. "

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" Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. "

" Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. "

" The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. "

" One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. "

" 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 people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. "

" The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. "

" Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. "

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

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" The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. "

" 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. "

" People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "

" Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. "

" The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. "

" Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. "

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

" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "

" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "

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

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

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

" Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. "

" The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. "

" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "