Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

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The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived...

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived...

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to...

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to...

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest...

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest...

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy...

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy...

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about...

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about...

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to...

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to...

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend...

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend...

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes....

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes....

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans...

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans...

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened...

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened...

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to...

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to...

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics...

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics...

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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and...

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Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it...

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run...

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run...

People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects...

People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects...

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians...

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians...

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price...

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price...

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could...

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could...