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

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.

Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.