Ann Coulter

Another triumph in Janet Napolitano's "Let's stay one step behind the terrorists" policy!

Sir George Sitwell

Sir George Sitwell, turned into a comic character in his son Osbert’s autobiography, born 1860 (died 1943). “I must ask anyone entering the house,” he said, “never to contradict me or differ from me in any way, as it interferes with the functioning of the gastric juices and prevents my sleeping at night.”

Koestler

But the Koestler he depicts is consistently repugnant — humorless, megalomaniac, violent. Like many people concerned about “humanity,” he was contemptuous of actual humans.

Geneva convention

John Tonkin, who experienced a great deal of the war. "I have always felt," Capt. Tonkin said, "that the Geneva Convention is a dangerous piece of stupidity, because it leads people to believe that war can be civilized. It can't."

Subsidies

The most damning problem with government "help" is what we saw with the bailout of the U.S. auto industry: Help props up those who are producing things that customers do not want.

Priests

“If you want to know what the Church teaches, never ask a priest.”

Unemployment

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Labor Dept: Available Labor Rate Increases To 10.2% 12.05.09

Orwell

George Orwell said that the quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

Democracy?

Speaking earlier, Senator Espada began his comments by saying his support for same-sex marriage was not echoed by his constituents. “If this vote was taken in my district today,” he said, “same sex marriage would fail.” He urged senators not to cave to ignorance “or pander to that in our communities.”

Mrs. Pelosi

Well, Nancy, you didn't say anything, but at least you didn't take a lot of time not to say it.

College life

R.R. Reno wrote that higher education has become "the professional training of clever and sybaritic animals, who drink, vomit, and fornicate in the dorms by night while they posture critically and ironically by day."