The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.