We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.

“Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

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

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?