Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.