Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

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

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.