Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? Jesse Helms in 1959, as quote...

I have grown cynical since 1979 when I found myself in Washington as a 24 year old sprite, agog at the majesty and towering historical figures with whom I was rubbing shoulders. But the reverence I had for politicians and our system of government back then was misplaced. I see now that the stately b...

"Hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain't shit."    Major General John F. Kelly to a reporter who asked him if he ever contemplated defeat (h/t, Blackfive)...

"When I get out of here, I am getting off the stage. I have had my time in the Klieg lights." George Bush . God bless him. I still don't think he ever really wanted or enjoyed the job and the power and visibility all that much. I think he took it on as a duty while his perso...

From May of this year. h/t, Ed Driscoll: I grew up in the 1950s, supposedly the heyday of conformity, but there was much more freedom of opinion back then. And as a result, you knew that your neighbors might hold different views from you on politics or religion. Today, the notion that men of good wi...

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov...

Albert Einstein: The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Cicero : The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. H. L. Men...

The Constitution, written by men with some experience of actual government, assumes that the chief executive will work to be king, the Parliament will scheme to sell off the silverware, and the judiciary will consider itself Olympian and do everything it can to much improve (destroy) the work of the...

Reading Dean's plea for funds reminds me that I've never yet heard a Democrat say that there is hardly any difference between John McCain and Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. John Hinderaker...

There have always been elements of ironic comedy about the spectacle of Marxist academics fervently proclaiming their revolutionary message while safely ensconced in Western institutions of higher education. Roger Kimball, in Was Jesus Christ a Palestinian Insurgent? He goes on: As the years have p...