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

Quote by Thomas Sowell

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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...

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

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

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

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

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function...

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function...

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced...

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced...

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions...

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions...

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

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

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever...

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever...

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who...

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who...

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the...

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the...

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...

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

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

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not...

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not...

The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.

The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.

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

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

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen...

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen...

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is...

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is...

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has...

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has...

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a...

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a...

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard...

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard...

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in...

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in...