Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.

Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right . . .

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils