The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
THOMAS SOWELLIf 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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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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