Tamara Shrugged
Sep 25, 20204 min read
Do Not Build That Wall!
“Globally, migrant workers send home hundreds of billions every year, more than all foreign aid combined…The bottom line is that open...

My Personal Guide to A Lifetime of Liberty
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus
“Globally, migrant workers send home hundreds of billions every year, more than all foreign aid combined…The bottom line is that open...
“There is a defect in your culture when your own people can grow up in your midst without gaining an appreciation of the difference between freedom and slavery, between idealism and atheism, between faith and doubt, or between order and chaos...If our culture and system of education is producing materialists, then this is the greatest secret weapon the Communists possess.” – The Naked Communist As coronavirus deaths in the United States near 200,000, cries of outrage resound
“In a capitalist society, everyone is an economic planner. Everyone faces a constant stream of economic choices. How people respond to these choices both reflects and helps to determine just who they are as individuals.” - Why Not Capitalism? Everything the socialists desire can be accomplished voluntarily under the capitalist system. The problem is, most advocates of socialism want it for others, and not for themselves. It has been said that the nuclear family operates in
“Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” – Takeda Kunihiko...
“When I lost the urge to control others, I also lost all need to hate or fear anyone. The world is no longer divided between the good guys and the bad guys.” – How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. It’s another election year, and both teams, the Reds and the Blues, are in typical beast mode for control of the federal purse strings. This war, like most, is tribal, the modern-day Hatfields versus the McCoys. Each touts an end-of-the-world apocalypse if the other side wins,
”Now you see why the creature is so dangerous, added Grandpa Tuttle. A lot of people have suffered around the world because it (the...
“I, the white man, got from the Negro the same shriveling treatment I, the Negro, had got from the white man. It was nothing I had done,...
“Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach, and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the...
“Being a boy is not a social disease.” – The War Against Boys That’s what little boys are made of. Little girls, of course, are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Based on a popular nursery rhyme from the early 19 th century, the author knew one thing: boys and girls are different. Equal, but different. Yet, in modern times, the gender pendulum has clearly swung in the direction of girls. International Women’s Day is celebrated worldwide every March 8, f
“The masses have never thirsted for truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master. Whoever attempts to destroy...
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – Why I Write Dare to be a Daniel. Dare to Stand Alone. Dare to have a Purpose Firm. Dare to Make it Known. These are the 1873 lyrics from Philip Paul Bliss, as George Orwell noted in his 1946 essay “ The Prevention of Literature ”. Daniel, of course, is a Biblical figure who was famously thrown into the lion’s den for refusing to adhere
“I am fortunate to live in the Soviet Union, the most democratic and progressive country in the world. I have read how hard the lives of...
“The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who...
“As to so-called ‘affirmative action” …I am old-fashioned enough to be against it simply because it is wrong…I cannot find the cleverness...
“Besides the Normal Constitution, protective of individual rights, we now have a Crisis Constitution, hostile to individual rights and...
“Roosevelt, by centralizing power in the executive, by providing subsidies for votes, and by his charismatic radio addresses, took...
“If socialism ever earns a final epitaph, it will be this: Here lies a contrivance engineered by know-it-alls who broke eggs with abandon but never, ever created an omelet. “- I, Pencil In Adam Smith’s 1759 tome, “A Theory of Moral Sentiment”, the Scottish economist describes a Man of the System who is very wise in his own conceit, who imagines that he “can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a che
“All things that governments do can be divided into two categories – those we could do away with today and those we hope to be able to do...
“The Forgotten Man is the simple, honest laborer, ready to earn his living by productive work. We pass him by because he is independent,...
“There once was an island called Liberty, where people lived happy and free.” – An Island Called Liberty “There once was a tune, and...