Supporters of numerical policies have the powerful drive of self-interest as well as self-righteousness. Bureaucratic empires have grown up to administer these programs…. The rulers and agents of this empire can order employers around, make college presidents bow and scrape, assign schoolteachers by race, or otherwise gain power, publicity, and career advancement--regardless of whether minorities are benefited or not.
–Thomas Sowell
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December 18, 2025The Brutality of the U.S. Empire Is on Display in Venezuela
I can’t help but feel very sorry for the Venezuelan people. Imagine living under a brutal and corrupt illegitimately elected dictatorship, a national-security state form of government, and a full socialist economic system. Oh, but unfortunately, that’s not all. Imagine also having to live in a country in which the most powerful military empire in world history is also waging war against the ...
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Other than being Americans, what is it that most Americans have in common? It is not that most Americans speak English, vote, have a high ...
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Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic....