It isn’t so much that I care very much for or about Vladimir Putin, but in our continuing examination of the United States foreign service, I find it amazing that we are seemingly incapable of hiring anyone to diplomatic posts who have a lick of common sense. Last week, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham […]
Better the poor whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse. Desire without knowledge is not good —how much more will hasty feet miss the way! A person’s own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the Lord. Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton once announced, “One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.” Actually, one cannot imagine what she was talking about unless you understand whom the real Hillary Rodham Clinton is, as opposed to […]
“Only a global crusade against the U.S., the West, globalization, and their political-ideological expression, liberalism, is capable of becoming an adequate response… The American empire should be destroyed.” —Aleksandr Dugin After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 —principally because communism may look good on paper, but it just doesn’t work (anywhere), Russia went […]
“That government is best which governs least.” —United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1837 The above quotation may very well be the underpinning of conservative thought, but that alone would be far too simplistic for something as complex as political philosophy. I’ve been thinking about this, and while the following may not pertain to everyone, […]
An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels. Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach. The words of the mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream. It is […]
George Bush ran for the presidency on this notion he called “compassionate conservatism.” I honestly do not know what that means, other than, perhaps, there is something called dispassionate conservatism. I don’t really know what that is, either. No, I suspect that George Bush was just plain old full of it. But, it did get […]
