Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.