It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that.

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary as liberal as possible and treating the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal legacy as sacrosanct.

When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.