In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives