The UNnatural...

As much as I or some other conservative may carp about the UN, an Indian friend of mine added a bit of clarity to this issue. The UN's charter is to keep the peace and cannot take warlike actions to keep the peace. Keeping the peace includes endless negotiations and appeasement.

Where this clarity falls apart is when UN forces are deployed to keep the peace and they cannot or will not do it.

The Wisdom of Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Everybody's Stupid

How does it go... "Everybody's stupid, but on different subjects". The liberal elite are so intelligent, however, that they can claim proficiency in all subjects, even those they've never heard of before. Awesome. No clear-cut decisions, only statements supported by every possible obfuscation to thoroughly confuse and lord over we common folk.

What happens when conservatives call liberals on their verbal gymnastic games? We get Howard Dean's roar. Teddy Kennedy's orbital responses including calling an African American judicial appointee a Neanderthal. Give us a break!

Camel's Nose Under The Tent

Remember when only Las Vegas had legal gambling other than card rooms and race tracks? Then there was Atlantic City. Then there were the Indian Casinos. Then...Then...

So it is with the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts. The only thing missing is the false economic incentive that carried gambling into a building next to you.

Writing Pet peeve

If we are the sum of our experience, why is there this insistence that everything be thoroughly referenced and footnoted? Facts or substantiation never got in the way of the progressive thought processes, so why waste the time?

Clearly, if one lifts other's words or ideas, one must give credit where credit is due, but for the most part, this continual need to substantiate ones theories or writings undermines its originality and relegates the piece to some sort of incremental blip to the knowledge of man.

As it states in the Bible book Ecclesiastes, "There is nothing new under the sun." So it would seem that anything accumulated in our gray matter and then regurgitated in a BLOG such as this is nothing more than a restructuring of that which has gone before. How sad.

The truth of the matter is that man is seldom convinced by a footnote, but by the deeper meaning of the words he is reading. It is quite popular to publish book after book of facts and footnotes to support arguments with very little space given to vision. This admonishment applies to both sides of the political spectrum.

The trouble we have now is that some group's vision is pretty screwed up! Q.E.D.