Quotes of the Day

"Iraq is the excuse du jour for jihadists. But the important factor
is that these are young men looking for an excuse. If you live your
life calculating that it's a mistake to do anything that might
prompt murderers and savages to act like murderers and savages,
you've basically decided to live under their thumb and surrender
your civilization in the process." ---Jonah Goldberg


"Now it appears that voters are willing to turn over Congress
to a party most of whose representatives voted against allowing
the National Security Agency to surveil without a court order
al-Qaida suspects when they place calls to persons in the United
States and against allowing terrorist interrogations under rules
supported by John McCain. We are weary, it seems, and ready to
go back on holiday." ---Michael Barone


"The gavel of the speaker of the House is in the hands of
special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America's
children." ---Nancy Pelosi

"It so happens that everything that is stupid is not
unconstitutional." ---Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia