Michael J. Knowles

“Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following the Republican-led shutdown of 2013 should have put that canard to rest.”

“For the Left, when ideology and reality conflict, ideology must win.”

“The American healthcare system is the worst form of healthcare other than all the other systems that have been tried.”

“As pro-life advocates continue to expose the scientific and ethical reality of abortion, we must also console the millions of Americans who carry the heavy burden of an enormous sin.”

“If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.”

“Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.”

“For decades, the pro-life movement has focused on scientific evidence and ethical arguments.”

“President Trump committed obstruction. From the moment he defeated Hillary Clinton, Democrats have tried to overturn the 2016 election, and President Trump has obstructed their efforts every step of the way.”

“The Left relies upon the politics of fantasy to tempt voters.”

“For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.”

“Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.”

“While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they're going out of style, the United States under President Trump has led the world in reducing carbon emissions.”

“In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.”

“The conservative vision regards politics more as a matter of gratitude than entitlement - duty over rights. We have inherited so much: a wonderful country, a culture of freedom and abundance, even our life itself, earned through no effort of our own but bequeathed as a gift from our forefathers.”

“A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.”

“That process of exposure to diverse opinions isn't 'brainwashing' - it's education.”

“The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the assimilation of Hispanics into American society.”

“Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past.”

“Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.”

“Whether the origin of 'A Course In Miracles' is diabolical or merely psychological, the book proclaimed an anti-gospel of unreality and bred a cult of self-satisfaction for which Marianne Williamson has served as chief apostle.”