Great Leaders Are Willing To Retire Unloved

The Left Is Entering A New Phase Of Ideological Agitation No Longer Trying To Win The Debate But Stopping Debate Altogether, Banishing From Public Discourse Any And All Opposition. The Proper Word For That Attitude Is Totalitarian. It Declares Certain Controversies Over And Visits Serious Consequences From Social Ostracism To Vocational Defenestration Upon Those Who Refuse To Be Silenced.

History Has Blessed Us With All The Freedom And Advantages Of Multiculturalism. But It Has Also Blessed Us, Because Of The Accident Of Our Origins, With The Linguistic Unity That Brings A Critically Needed Cohesion To A Nation As Diverse, Multiracial And Multiethnic As America. Why Gratuitously Throw Away That Priceless Asset? How Mindless To Call The Desire To Retain It 'racist.

It’s Not The Advertising - It’s The Dog Food. Every Time Anybody Has A Look At It Or Has A Lick Of It, They Don’t Like It.

When A Party Is In Opposition, It Opposes. That's Its Job. But When It Comes To Power, It Must Govern. Easy Rhetoric Is Over, The Press Of Reality Becomes Irresistible. By Necessity, It Adopts Some Of The Policies It Had Once Denounced. And A New National Consensus Is Born.

The Indecisiveness And Ambivalence So Devastatingly Described By Both Of Obama's Previous Secretaries Of Defense, Leon Panetta And Bob Gates, Are Already Beginning To Characterize The Syria Campaign.