Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

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

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

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

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Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men...

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

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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then...

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

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but...

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

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

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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

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What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world...

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What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of...

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

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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and...

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

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

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People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who...