The shrillness of a Progressive's outrage is in inverse proportion to the degree to which the facts support his/her position.

-"Occam's Toothbrush" Go To Site

We focused so hard on our good intentions. Before our deployment overseas, Peace Corps vetted us for our idealism and "tolerance," not for our competence or accomplishments.

  We all wanted to save the world. What depressingly little we did accomplish was often erased with the next drought, landslide, or insurrection.

-Danusha V. Goska Go To Site

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

-Theodore Roosevelt Go To Site

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he already knows, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him."

Liberals In Denial

November 2016

I know a great many sensible liberals. I’m always struck by how some of them are a little ashamed of their conservative sides. They think it’s selling-out or some other kind of corruption.

  They celebrate people who stay committed to their youthful radicalism as if the inability to grow up is admirable.

-Jonah Goldberg Go To Site