I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.
The fact is beneath the hype Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.
After three elections voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record.
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena victory is assured.
Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame money and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent looks or mastery of a narrow skill.
So why after prior successes did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?
Americans spend more money on Botox face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio small pox and malaria.
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.
War seems to come out of nowhere like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.
Behind every American soldier dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly ? and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.
Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.
A Ted Kennedy John Kerry John Edwards Howard Dean George Soros or Al Gore looks - no acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.
Almost every key indicator of the current economy - unemployment deficits housing energy - argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has only made things far worse.
Even in its third century America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.
Often the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land food or fuel but rather perceptions - like fear honor and perceived self-interest.
The easily ridiculed so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted and who working in the shadows guarantee civilization instead of chaos.
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative there are no standards at all.
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.
It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .