[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

A brave nation fights only because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnon’s unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena of pure thought.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.