This Week In Quotes: Nov 27 – Dec 3

by John Hawkins | December 4, 2015 3:13 am

In 2012, the University of Chicago asked 40 leading economists whether a gold standard would improve the lives of average Americans. All 40 said no. — Binyamin Appelbaum[1]

Years ago Marvin Olasky wrote how compassion traditionally meant to “suffer with.” Over the years it turned into writing a check. Now it means making other people write checks. — Doug Bandow[2]

On Wednesday, a Washington Post article announced that “The San Bernardino shooting is the second mass shooting today and the 355th this year.” Vox, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, this newspaper and others reported similar statistics. Grim details from the church in Charleston, a college classroom in Oregon and a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado are still fresh, but you could be forgiven for wondering how you missed more than 300 other such attacks in 2015. At Mother Jones, where I work as an editor, we have compiled an in-depth, open-source database covering more than three decades of public mass shootings. By our measure, there have been four “mass shootings” this year, including the one in San Bernardino, and at least 73 such attacks since 1982. — Mark Follman[3]

If angry political rhetoric bred violence, America would look something like Syria – awash in genocidal conflict. For sheer viciousness the robust debates between politicians and activists often pale in comparison to the “flame wars” on Twitter and Facebook, where arguments quickly become deeply personal. America’s political culture is thoughtful in parts, but it’s also a shouting culture, and anyone who’s looking for angry or extremist rhetoric can find it. It’s everywhere. — David French[4]

There’s a reason why the Democrats for years have been viewed as soft on crime. The Democrats know convicted felons tend to vote Democrat. — Ted Cruz[5]

If you’re more interested in playing the ‘hater’ card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them. — Dr. Everett Piper[6]

Our friends in the community-organizing racket — whether from Chicago’s South Side or the campus of Yale — are a remarkably consistent bunch: Whatever the real or perceived social problem, the answer is the same: Write a very large check that eventually will make its way into the pockets of such people and organizations as those that organize these protests. — Kevin Williamson[7]

Endnotes:
  1. Binyamin Appelbaum: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/business/economy/the-good-old-days-of-the-gold-standard-not-really-historians-say.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0
  2. Doug Bandow: http://spectator.org/articles/64815/what-makes-john-kasich-so-sanctimonious
  3. Mark Follman: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/opinion/how-many-mass-shootings-are-there-really.html
  4. David French: http://www.nationalreview.com/node/427719/print
  5. Ted Cruz: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ted-cruz-planned-parenthood-democrats-crime-216288
  6. Dr. Everett Piper: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/university-president-this-is-not-a-daycare/article/2577295
  7. Kevin Williamson: http://www.nationalreview.com/republicans-must-save-cities

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