If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.