Ilana Mercer

Ilana Mercer

ILANA Mercer is a classical liberal writer, based in the United States. She pens WND's longest-standing, exclusive paleolibertarian column, "Return to Reason." Ilana also features on RT with the "Paleolibertarian Column." ILANA is a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, and the author of "Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa." "The titular tease," she explains in the book, "is meant as a metaphor and is inspired by Ayn Rand's wise counsel against prostrating civilization to savagery." ILANA's website is WWW.IlanaMercer.com . She blogs at www.barelyablog.com

Just Another Mouth in the Republican Fellatio Machine

The symbolic thrust of Hustler's crude, much-protested, Photoshopped depiction of Rockefeller Republican S. E. Cupp is commendable: Silence this siren of stupidity. The Hustler make-believe image of Cupp was captioned incorrectly, describing the "€œconservative"€ commentator as "€œsomeone ...

It’s All About Race

Blanket charges of racism have become the stock-in-trade of the liberal media in reporting on Town-Hall protesters. For converging to petition their representatives about the administration's profligate policies, independent-minded, patriotic constitutionalists have been savaged by rabid reporters ...

Consensus For Failure

A Kabul"€“based United Nations's guesthouse is the latest target to be hit by Afghani insurgents. Eight people, including an American, were killed. Three days prior, capital-city Kabul was the scene of a helicopter crash that claimed 14 American lives, in what the Associated Press characterized ...

Hyper Inflation

If you needed incontrovertible proof that homegrown retardation is far more pressing a problem than homegrown terrorism in modern-day America"€”six-year-old Falcon Heene's flight of fancy provided it. The contagion that gripped the nation began on October the 15th. Anyone turning on the boob ...

Athens & Jerusalem

Geert Wilders is a Dutch parliamentarian, and leader of the Freedom Party (PVV). He, and sixty percent of the Dutch population, “considers mass immigration to be the worst mistake since the Second World War.” An equal percentage of Wilders’ countrymen see Islam as the number one ...

The Vampire Sector

Be it the "€œpublic option"€ (that"€™ll eliminate all other options), the co-opting "€œco-op,"€ or the make-believe market that is the "€œinsurance exchange"€: if implemented, these euphemisms for centrally planned medicine will mean many more bureaucracies manned by plenty of ...

He Lied!

Joe Wilson knows of what he speaks. South Carolina's Republican Representative is what one of my readers has dubbed deliciously a "€œsubject matter expert"€ on providing federal health benefits to illegal aliens. Wilson voted "€œYea"€ for the Bush "€œMedicare Prescription Drug, ...

Encountering Gottfried

Given the perpetual parade of "€œintellectuals"€ who are not intelligent in our media "”€ Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS and the "€œparrot press"€ "”€ I don"€™t expect many Americans to be familiar with political philosopher Paul E. Gottfried. Nevertheless, Paul (he's a friend) is one of ...

Going Postal

The other day, at my local branch of the United States Postal Service, a devoted USPS customer told me in high decibels to go back whence I came. Although I speak and write English at a level this yahoo could not aspire to, I do the former sans an American accent. In the chauvinistic, provincial ...

Where Are All These Jobs?

Let's suppose a business employed ten workers in June. Along came Barack Obama and huffed and puffed and blew six jobs away. Four employees now run a pared-down operation. The next round of retrenchments will invariably entail fewer than six people. The president, or any other wolf in sheep’s ...


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