At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement's aims: They're anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

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

We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.