National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.