I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.
If you’re uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?
Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you’re just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.
I suppose in John Kerry’s world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.
The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq – one of its largest trading partners – for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn’t be redeemable by a new regime.
Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.
Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn’t exist.
The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more – perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.
As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.
Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today’s liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.
You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.
Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.
One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
Fascism isn’t a libertarian doctrine! It just isn’t, never will be and it can’t be cast as one.
But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don’t have one.
When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I’m grateful. It’s like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.
If we say that anyone who ‘moralizes’ must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.
The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.
I’ve just returned from my daughter’s Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl – and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.