What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the last century. Isolationsim, refusing to accept our role in the world, and delaying our response to evildoers ultimately cost fifty-three million lives in World War 2 alone. The preemption policy of the Bush administration, taking the war to the enemy and exporting democracy and freedom, has liberated fifty million.

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.