When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

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

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.