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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.

Thomas Sowell

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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Book Causation Correlation Forget Statistics
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.
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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty Sarcastic Truth
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Freedom Government Justice Law Liberty People
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Acceptance Agree Evidence
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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