The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

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

So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.

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

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.