Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.

Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.