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Ilana Mercer is a South African-born American author, columnist, blogger and thinker. She has appeared on numerous radio, podcasts and television shows.
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"Wars are generally a rich man's affair and a poor man's fight.”
"The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality."
"Republicanism is so meaningless a political identity that a Democrat can just as easily transition to being one, without too much pain."
"Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic."
"The Big-Media collective is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they'll recognize it, much less report it."
"[T]rade, not democracy, is the best antidote to war."
"Corruption invariably flows from state to society."
“Race and crime can be discussed as long as the topic is framed in ‘root-causes’ terms: stick to the Three Ps—patriarchy, poverty, and powerlessness.”
"[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania."
"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."
"Unite we Americans do over the state of our sovereign debt—it's bad! But not over what it means to be a sovereign people."
"Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder."
"Life with Islam is life under Islam and its enablers."
"If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market."
"Once illiberal, unassimilable people gain 'numeric superiority,' they will turn their population advantage into political advantage, using the host population's liberalism against it."
"It should be news to no one that American refugee policies favor the Bantu peoples of Africa over its Boers."
"Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn."
"Our staggeringly pompous president is incapable of comprehending that a businessman cannot pay a worker in excess of his productivity and hope to stay solvent."
"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."
"Centuries of Islam, transmitted through mother's milk, cannot be tweaked out of the Muslim DNA like some unsightly nose-hair."
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