In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.

Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.

Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.