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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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“It is in Man’s nature to dislike those who are unlike him - all the more so when they, as a group, have accomplished what he has not.”
"As the left sees it, if America isn't going to police the world; it must at least provide shelter to all people from unpoliced parts of the world."
"In a democracy, thumping majorities prevail."
"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?"
"Neoconservatives are still in the business of creating their own parallel reality and forcing ordinary Americans, Europeans and Middle-Easterners to inhabit the ruins."
"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."
"Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
"America's foreign police is Disneyfied production, starring, invariably, an evil dictator who was killing his noble people, until, high on paternalism, America rode to the rescue."
"If America busies itself not with elective wars, but with commerce, the shift in power and prestige will be away from politicians who prosecute wars, and back to The People who produce prosperity."
"Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload."
"The anti-Trump protest ongoing is not cerebral or visceral, it’s gynocentric. And it’s expressly anti-male."
“Obama didn’t build what he has; he got it by grant of government privilege.”
"Our adventurous foreign policy might be a necessary precondition for Muslim aggression but it is far from a sufficient one."
"Government commissions are where accountability goes to die."
"Working for government ought to be one of the most dangerous jobs ever. Occupational hazard might just get us a better class of parasite."
"Progressive policies lead to a regressive society."
“President Trump is too set in his ways and independent-minded to imbibe the layers of debased semiotics with which government lawyers routinely rape reality."
"Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much–maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve."
"An American writer's intellectual energy ought to focus on American interests, first. Personal probity demands it! Otherwise, the columnist is a fifth column."
"According to the disease theory of delinquency, the arsonist has 'pyromania,' the thief 'kleptomania,’ and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ‘sex-addict.’"
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