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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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Frankenfoods, diet dictators and other folderol

by Ilana Mercer -- What follows is the first part of a conversation with Karen De Coster, CPA. Karen De Coster is an accounting/finance professional and a freelance writer, blogger, speaker and more…

Walk like an Egyptian

by Ilana Mercer -- This just in: The Secret Service, backed by the District of Columbia Police Department, is battling thousands of protesters outside President Barack Obama's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue "palace," prompting more…

The fiscal cliff: a lemming's lunacy

by Ilana Mercer -- Since the chicken-little metaphor is hackneyed, let us use the alleged lunacy of the lemming as a metaphor for the prattle that rises from the cattle that is more…

Standing armies commandeered by cowards

by Ilana Mercer -- In "Letters from Iceland," W. H. Auden reflected on "the cold controlled ferocity of the human species." The latest flare-up in the cold war between Hamas and Israel more…

Whoring and warring in the military: What's new?

by Ilana Mercer -- There's David Petraeus, former CIA director, formerly a four-star general who cultivated his own celebrity. There's his mistress-cum-stalker, the bombastic, narcissistic Paula Broadwell, who despite – or, rather, more…

The D-Bomb has dropped

by Ilana Mercer -- In our democracy – for we are no longer a republic that upholds individual rights and limits central power – you vote not for the representative who will more…

Mining Mitt's apartheid moment

by Ilana Mercer -- During the final presidential debate, Republican contender Mitt Romney got my hackles up (unnecessarily) with the following invocation of apartheid: "I would also make sure that [Iran's] diplomats more…

The perils of presidential 'Yellow Peril' fever

by Ilana Mercer -- In the course of the second presidential debate, Mitt Romney was asked to differentiate himself from the justifiably despised George W. Bush. The Republican presidential contender, who has more…