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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.

Thomas Sowell

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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.

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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.

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