Tamara Shrugged
Jun 30, 20204 min read
Ode to Thomas Sowell
“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...

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
“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...
“It is the mind, not society, that forges the manacles that keep people enchained to their misfortunes.” - Life At The Bottom As we near...
“Their blind arrogant expectation is that their views deserve to be taken seriously merely because they are famous.” – Shut Up & Sing It...
“Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self...
“We can all no doubt remember having found ourselves suddenly under the influence of an idea, the source of which we cannot possibly...
“Disinformation has caused worldwide damage to the reputation of the United States, and now it’s putting down roots in this country...
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” – George Orwell The term “intellectual moron” may seem...
“Nearly seventy years after its creation, North Korea remains closed and as cruel as ever.” – The Girl With Seven Names As the world...
“Now officially retired, the USDA food pyramid endures as part of the national consciousness, representing more than just a set of...
“Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. Nearly the whole of the produce of our labor is stolen from us by human beings. Man is...
“In a sane world, a decline in wealth inequality would be cause for worry, because it would signal reduced opportunity for the ambitious...
“White guilt is the terror of being seen as racist – a terror that has caused whites to act guiltily toward minorities even when they...
“It’s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our school system doesn’t improve. It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.” - Failure Stalin once said, “ Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed ”. Public edu
“At least two-thirds of the money assigned to government welfare budgets is eaten up by bureaucracy. Taken by itself, this would mean it...