Have a definite opinion.

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.