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Ilana Mercer is a classical liberal (libertarian) writer and a fellow at the "Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies." She is the author of "Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa." "The titular tease," explains Ilana 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 IlanaMercer.com.. She blogs at www.barelyablog.com.
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Seeking honorable Hondurans for hire

by Ilana Mercer -- Vice President Joe Biden has been slightly more candid than his boss, confessing of late that he "and everyone else misread the economy." For his "everyone else" refrain, more…

A July 4th toast to Thomas Jefferson

by Ilana Mercer -- The Declaration of Independence – whose proclamation, on July 4, 1776, we celebrate tomorrow – has been mocked out of meaning. To be fair to the liberal establishment, more…

Obama's politburo of proctologists

by Ilana Mercer -- Obama is a heavy-duty planner; a command and control kind of guy. He aims to replace cumbersome, heavily regulated medicine ─ the kind Americans have now ─ with more…

Let's fret about our own tyrants

by Ilana Mercer -- What a relief. The demonstrations in the Islamic Republic, pursuant to the disputed election, have failed to cue the staple presidential speech we'd become accustomed to from George more…

We get it: Museum shooter is a hateful honky

by Ilana Mercer -- What are the limited lessons learned so far from the shooting of a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by an elderly anti-Semitic pamphleteer, who more…

Beware of 'Absolut' libertarian lunacy

by Ilana Mercer -- About certain moral (and legal) matters, patriotic, freedom-loving Americans agree instinctively. For example: When brave border patrolmen Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean shot an illegal alien drug dealer more…

Media's judicial jiu-jitsu for 'Da Big Man'

by Ilana Mercer -- First there was "The Decider." Then came Big Man Obama. "The Decider" is the nickname George Bush gave his all-powerful self. To go by the dictionary, and "within more…

Statists struggle with states' rights

by Ilana Mercer -- States across the country are rediscovering and reasserting the 10th Amendment to the Constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by more…

Life, liberty and property

by Ilana Mercer -- I like Fox News broadcaster Glenn Beck. The man exudes goodness and has a visceral feel for freedom. From this scrupulous soul I'd like to hear less about more…

A cow is born

by Ilana Mercer -- I thought Elizabeth Hasselback, the Republican Party's brain trust on the "View," was a little simple. But, intellectually, she towers above the succession of vacuous, narcissistic, pig-ignorant panelists more…