But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies." Without adult supervision, they organize themselves into rival tribes, learn to hunt and kill, and eventually become murderous barbarians in the absence of a civilizing structure.

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.