Category Archives: Quote of the Day

Once again, Instapundit gets the nod November 19th is National Ammo Day: Pick up a box or two. Hey, get some Chinese-made ammo and at least it’ll be something that’s supposed to contain lead! Glenn Reynolds

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was … Continue reading →

From South Park Pundit, who got to do what the rest of us Kalifornians dream of doing during the recent Southland fires: Now I know how people in Freedomland must feel. –Josh, the South Park Pundit “Civil rights in a … Continue reading →

Found at Samizdata So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot. George Orwell There is such a thing as “left-wing thought”?

A couple weeks back, while on the cruise, one of the books I had with me was Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. Good stuff, of course. And an excellent paragraph from the book follows Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the … Continue reading →

From last night’s Republican Debate, which, IMO, Fred Dalton Thompson won: [Fred is asked about the charge that he is “lazy,” which prompts some audience murmurs of protest.] “Nah that’s okay. Let me answer that… I was a father at … Continue reading →

From the Reagan Diaries: Sunday, September 6 [1981] I know we should have gone to church & yet I’m concerned about the elaborate security measures which have me arriving in a siren screaming motorcade. I don’t know what the answer … Continue reading →

From the Reagan Diaries: Friday, September 4 [1981] …Not a big day. Met with Al Haig — the world is still exploding. The French Ambass. to Beirut was gunned down by terrorists doing the Syrians’ work. Met with Jim Watt. … Continue reading →

“October 19th was a fine day — a wonderful day. Or at least it was for the rebel colonists.” –David of RNS at 12 years old, reading the first words of my winning essay on Cornwallis for the Daughters of … Continue reading →