While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.