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Ilana Mercer
295 quotes
“Certain bedrock principles — arguably a true conservative mindset — dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing[…] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Just a girl with a gun; not a gratuitous killer", Praag.org, November 25, 2013.
“Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.”
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Recorded in: Uber Alec, Barking-Mad Bashir, Death-Defying Libertarians", WorldNetDaily.com, November 29, 2013.
“A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct in predicting the fate of freedom after Philadelphia.”
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Recorded in: Anti-Federalists Prophesied the End of Freedom", American Daily Herald, December 9, 2013.
“To the American media, mining Mandela's legacy has meant repeating the man's fortune-cookie profundities and warmed-over wisdom.”
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Recorded in: Mandela mum about systematic murder of whites", Praag.org, December 13, 2013.
“A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the Right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional – a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.”
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Recorded in: Apartheid South Africa: Reality vs. Libertarian Fantasy", Praag.org, December 20, 2013.
“…free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.”
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Recorded in: Apartheid South Africa: Reality vs. Libertarian Fantasy", Praag.org, December 20, 2013.
“Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture… American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.”
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Recorded in: Duck Dynasty: A Decoy For Dummies", American Daily Herald, December 27, 2013.
“In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along—there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, 'independent' regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.”
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Recorded in: Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof", WorldNetDaily.com, January 3, 2014.
“The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.”
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Recorded in: Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof", WorldNetDaily.com, January 3, 2014.
“Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' … Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.”
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Recorded in: 'Left' and 'Right' Bamboozling You on Benghazi", American Daily Herald, January 13, 2014.
“As a Special-Forces commander, Sharon was on the front—and in front of his men — performing daring assaults that saved Israel in both the 1967 and 1973 wars. Hated though he was abroad, Sharon was, nevertheless, a soldier in the style of 'Stonewall' Jackson, not Dubya the Deserter, to whom he and the Likudniks were often compared.”
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Recorded in: A Soldier in the Style of 'Stonewall' Jackson", WorldNetDaily.com, January 16, 2014.
“If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government—the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.”
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Recorded in: Conned About Marriage, Constitution and States’ Rights”, WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2014.
“Most matters previously subject to state jurisdiction have been pulled into the orbit of the judiciary. So much for Alexander Hamilton's promise, in Federalist No. 78 (May 28, 1788), that the Judiciary would be the weakest of the three branches of his proposed government.”
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Recorded in: Conned About Marriage, Constitution and States’ Rights”, WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2014.
“… we’re not all the same. A common liberal refrain … is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don’t see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That’s liberal logic for you.”
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Recorded in: The Kindness of (Caucasian) Strangers”, Barely A Blog, January 31, 2014.
“Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game.”
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Recorded in: Desperately Needed: Dose of Kim Jong-un Justice”, WorldNetDaily.com, February 13, 2014.
“Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.”
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Recorded in: Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly" Economic Policy Journal, March 7, 2014.
“B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.”
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Recorded in: Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly" American Daily Herald, March 10, 2014.
“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey ‘hairs and no-hairs’ to ‘black hairs’—the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.”
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Recorded in: Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly" Quarterly Review, March 16, 2014.
“Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.”
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Recorded in: Libertarian Feminists Make A Move On Von Mises" Economic Policy Journal, March 28, 2014.
“The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.”
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Recorded in: Libertarian Feminists Make A Move On Von Mises" WorldNetDaily.com, March 28, 2014
“Whether arrived at through reason or revelation… natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.”
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Recorded in: Why the Land Belongs to Bundy," Economic Policy Journal, April 25, 2014.
“Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel … for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.”
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Recorded in: The Ridiculous Racial Merry-go-round," Economic Policy Journal, May 2, 2014.
“By going on the defensive... libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from “polite” company.”
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Recorded in: Fee-fi-fo-fem, I Smell The Blood Of A Racist", WorldNetDaily.com, May 15, 2014.
“Conservatives question government programs. War is a government program. If they hope to retain a modicum of philosophical integrity, conservatives will have to include a critique of the state's warfare machine in their case against its welfare apparatus.”
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Recorded in: Praying to the Military Moloch," Economic Policy Journal, June 6, 2014.
“Mrs. Clinton’s riches are not capitalism’s reward for hard work. Hillary has accrued wealth by using the predatory political process to wield power over others.”
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Recorded in: The Paltrow of politics (minus looks & ethics),” Praag.org, June 14, 2014.
“Iraq hasn't suddenly 'slipped back into' this backward and benighted state. It was bombed there by a mulish military power which didn't know Shiite from Shinola. [translated from German]”
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Recorded in: Irak: Von Tuten und Blasen keine Ahnung gehabt", Junge Freiheit, June 27, 2014.
“You'll get your free IUDs and morning-after-pills, if not from your employer or the insurers — then from the increasingly desperate taxpayer (who, by now, might even consider paying for a spaying, too).”
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Recorded in: Free Spaying for Stalinists,” WorldNetDaily.com, July 3, 2014.
“Ask yourself: "Do I police what people say for political propriety? … do I scrutinize great literature, music, art, television or comedy for signs of so-called sexism, racism, elitism, homophobia, antisemitism and meanness? Am I incapable of appreciating a superbly written script or book; a sublime painting or symphony; a smart stand-up routine, if only because the material and its creator violate the received laws of political correctness?”
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Recorded in: Joan Rivers – antidote to PC totalitarianism,” The Quarterly Review, July 11, 2014.
“Ask any left-liberal American Jew if he supports a 'Right of Return' to Israel proper for every self-styled Palestinian refugee, and he'll likely recoil: 'Are you meshuga? Never! That's a euphemism for Israel's demise.' The very thing he rejects for Israel, the liberal Jew is inclined to champion for America: a global right of return to the US for citizens of the world.”
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Recorded in: American Rabbis For Israel First, Economic Policy Journal, August 8, 2014.
“An American writer's intellectual energy ought to focus on American interests, first. Personal probity demands it! Otherwise, the columnist is a fifth column.”
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Recorded in: American Rabbis For Israel First, Economic Policy Journal, August 8, 2014.
“The sight of the Yazidis driven up the arid, exposed mountain range, chased by the militant Sunni of the Islamic State (ISIS), conjures Masada, A.D. 73, where Jews chose to die on their own terms.”
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Recorded in: Das Kurdische Masada,” Junge Freiheit (in German), August 21, 2014.
“This White House fetishizes Iraqi national unity. It believes that to succeed, Iraqis should be like Americans, forever imprisoned in an arranged, unhappy political marriage.”
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Recorded in: Das Kurdische Masada,” Junge Freiheit (in German), August 21, 2014.
“By all means, argue against laws that prohibit victimless 'crimes' on the ground that these disproportionally ensnare blacks. But do not err in accusing all cops of targeting blacks, when the former are entrusted with enforcing the law, and the latter violate the law in disproportion to their numbers in the general population.”
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Recorded in: Ferguson: Angst vor einer militarisierten Polizei” Junge Freiheit (in German), September 4, 2014.
“Leave ISIS to Syria, Tehran and Tel Aviv. Let the locals take out their trash.”
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Recorded in: Den Müll selber entsorgen,” Junge Freiheit (in German), September 18, 2014.
“Opposing the policies of the American state is not synonymous with opposing 'America.' It is possible to disavow every single action taken by the U.S. government and still love the 'little platoons' of America, as Edmund Burke described a man's social mainstay—his family, friends, coreligionists, coworkers. By logical extension, it is dishonest to malign those who assign the 'bad' category to the state, on the ground that they hate 'America.'”
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Recorded in: Amerika – ein gutes Land, ein schlechtes Land?” Junge Freiheit (in German), October 2, 2014.
“Good immigrants come to America to be part of the 'little platoons' that make up its glorious private economy: the people of Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Starbucks, McDonald's, Amazon, Google, Marriot, Mattel, FedEx, Costco, Coca-Cola, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Fred Meyer, Overstock.com, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and millions of local franchises run by innovative, everyday Americans. Bad immigrants come to America to partake of the state.”
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Recorded in: Amerika – ein gutes Land, ein schlechtes Land?” Junge Freiheit(in German), October 2, 2014.
“Working for government ought to be one of the most dangerous jobs ever. Occupational hazard might just get us a better class of parasite.”
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Recorded in: All the President's Women (Well, Almost),” WorldNetDaily.com, October 2, 2014.
“It's always good to see gender set-asides and affirmative action—in particular, the delusion that women are just as qualified as men to be soldiers, security guards, firefighters and cops—hurt those who inflict it on non-believers.”
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Recorded in: All the President's Women,” PRAAG.org, October 10, 2014.
“If not by design at least by default; reflexively if not intentionally, government operatives work to retain their positions and increase their sphere of influence.”
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Recorded in: Dying for Obama's Deadly Dogma,” Target Liberty, October 17, 2014.
“From financial aid (for foreign students) to an affirmative-action placement in Harvard Law School, Barry Soetoro is a Frankenstein of America’s creation.”
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Recorded in: Dying for Obama’s Deadly Dogma,” Target Liberty, October 17, 2014
“Obama didn’t build what he has; he got it by grant of government privilege.”
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Recorded in: Dying for Obama’s Deadly Dogma,” Junge Freiheit, October 17, 2014
“The road to freedom lies in beating back the state, so that individuals may regain freedom of association, dominion over property, the absolute right of self-defense; the right to hire, fire, and generally, associate at will. As a paleolibertarian, however, my idea of liberty is never propositional–it is not a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values.”
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Recorded in: Cathy Reisenwitz Redux: Steigerwald, Oy Vey Gevalt!," Libertarian Alliance, January 14, 2015
“The paleolibertarian grasps that liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.”
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Recorded in: Cathy Reisenwitz Redux: Steigerwald, Oy Vey Gevalt!" Libertarian Alliance, January 14, 2015
“Like left-liberals, "lite libertarians"—they're the kind that is afflicted with the same spineless conformity; a deformation of the personality euphemized as political correctness—are incapable of appreciating a script or book; a painting or symphony; a stand-up routine, if only because the material and its creator violates the received laws of political correctness.”
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Recorded in: ILANA MERCER, " "Cathy Reisenwitz Redux: Steigerwald, Oy Vey Gevalt!" The British Libertarian Alliance, January 14, 2015
“The night-watchman state of classical liberalism would keep murderers out of the country, not in.”
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Recorded in: Jihadists: a modest libertarian proposal” Junge Freiheit, January 29, 2015.
“The media lie so much, that when stuff happens that scares them, they no longer know where to turn for the truth.”
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Recorded in: The Camel-ate-my-homework Theory of Culpability,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 30, 2015.
“Disaffected, disadvantaged, disenfranchised is how progressives prefer to depict the Muslim murderers in their midst. After all, progressives hail from the school of therapeutic “thought” that considers crime to have been caused, not committed. Misbehavior is either medicalized and outsourced to state-approved experts, or reduced to the fault of the amorphous thing called society.”
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Recorded in: The Camel-ate-my-homework Theory of Culpability”, Libertarian Alliance, January 30, 2015.
“Western foreign policy is a necessary but insufficient reason for Muslim aggression.”
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Recorded in: The Camel-ate-my-homework Theory of Culpability,” Libertarian Alliance, January 30, 2015.
“At the annual White House Sycophants' Dinner, the most pretentious people in the country, in politics, journalism and entertainment - not the country's natural aristocracy, but its authentic Idiocracy - convene and revel in their ability to petition and curry favor with one another, usually to the detriment of the rest of us.”
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Recorded in: Media Morass,” Junge Freiheit, February 26, 2015.
“Where, pray tell, are those 'made in Russia' labels? Other than crude and commodities; Kalashnikovs (AK-47s) and Vodka – what does post-communist Russia peddle?”
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Recorded in: What's Wrong With Asking What's Up With Russia?” The Libertarian Alliance, March 20, 2015.