Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.