Category: This Week In Quotes

“Ethics,” in modern practice, basically consists of taking what the law would term mala in se offenses (bad in and of themselves; the sort of thing that people have a visceral, morality-based reaction to) and turning them into fairly minor mala prohbiata offenses (bad only because they’re prohibited by state action). More importantly, though, the […]

It is not enough for the insecure left to deem a position wrong; if it’s merely wrong, it needs to be argued about, and it can’t survive that. It must instead be morally aborrent, so that the zealot reacts to the toxin of questioning much like a jogger coming across a decomposing body on the […]

Washington is borrowing 37 cents of every dollar it spends from our kids and grandkids. Given that, I think it’s reasonable to ask why Congress is spending taxpayers’ money to support a left-wing radio network – and in the wake of Juan Williams’ firing, it’s clearer than ever that’s what NPR is. — John Boehner […]

He kind of looks like his parents were a tarantula and a deflated basketball. — Ace on Raul Grijalva David (Brooks), I don’t want to hear you complain about a tough week. You don’t spend nearly as much time as I do in auditoriums full of semi-suicidal Democrats. Really, I’m lucky I haven’t had to […]

The image is positively retro. Picture a sweaty brow, rolled-up sleeves, knotty forearms, calloused hands. Picture virgin land, just waiting to be transformed. Shovel-ready land. This is America on the eve of the Obama era. Shovel-ready. He keeps telling us so. On “Meet the Press,” fill-in host Tom Brokaw wants to know how quickly Barack […]

Look, as the old truism goes: Any organization which is not expressly right-wing will become left-wing over time. The reason is personnel; liberals don’t like actually making or doing things; they prefer to deal in the abstract, hands-clean. They like to advocate, or support, or take some people’s money and give it to some other […]

Why are you booing the first guy who’s telling you the truth in twenty years? — Chris Christie Any evidence of principle in a Republican is always treated by the elites as if it’s an embarrassing eccentricity best kept under wraps. — Ann Coulter Quite frankly, I’m exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, […]

I got a message for Sean Penn — maybe he ain’t see me in Haiti because he was too busy sniffing cocaine. — Wyclef Jean That’s the new Kenyan, Larry. And Kenyan, of course, was code for n*****. But that’s where they are. They can’t say it out loud. But that’s where this whole campaign […]

(This is a special double edition since I was attending Defending the American Dream and Beck’s Restoring Honor rally last week) I don’t know really how all of this is going to shake out. I do know that organizations like Tea Party Express and the RNC and National Republican Trust and all the other cash-raising […]

In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished. No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country’s loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act […]

The vaunted Obama economic stimulus, at $862 billion, has failed. The “progressives” want to double down, and were they to have their way, would have pushed for a bigger stimulus still. But the American people are in open rebellion against an economic strategy of public debt, higher taxes and unending deficits. We’re not all Keynesians, […]

And these programs that you mentioned — that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward — are all entitlement programs built to make government our God. And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry […]

That’s why the “Political Class” — the Gee Aren’t I Terribly Enlightened? crowd — opposes (building a fence). They talk about that a lot — the symbolism of the thing. How about discussing the reality of it? It’s a fence. Its real purpose — in real-world, real-time reality — is to halt people from crossing […]

One of the hottest books in America right now is Laura Ingraham’s The Obama Diaries. Happily, because I’m supposed to eventually be getting an interview with Laura, I was sent a media copy of the book, which I’ve already read. Since a lot of you are probably considering buying the book, I thought I’d give […]

Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should […]

His bigger complaint is that the GOP’s model — to the extent they have some kind of coherent theory about new media, and it’s quite questionable they even have that — is that the GOP shall be tasked with all intellectual work of creating and shaping a message, and then they will send out mass […]

The story about [McChrystal] voting for Obama is not contrived. He is a political liberal. He is a social liberal. He banned Fox News from the television sets in his headquarters. Yes, really. — Marc Ambinder On the other side stands Obama – solid and sober, rooted in the belief that his way is the […]

I feel like I’m more mainstream than the fellow that said tourists stink. This war is lost. Light skinned, no Negro dialect. Can I go on and on about what I think a whack job, marginal candidate sounds like, and that’s Harry Reid. And that’s why we need to fire him. He is so out […]

It used to be said “war is hell.” A more accurate description today might be “war is purgatory.” Political correctness demands that reason must prevail, even though war is conducted precisely because reasoning, aka diplomacy, has failed. We used to understand this. When America was threatened during WWll, we didn’t wring our collective hands wondering […]

I believe the federal government should use its legal resources to fight illegal immigration, not the State of Arizona. — Jan Brewer Over the last few weeks I’ve watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don’t know what they’re doing. — James […]

Every murderous totalitarian government of the 20th century began with some insulated group of faux-intellectuals congratulating each other on how smart they are, and fantasizing about how, if they could just install a dictatorship-for-a-day, they could right all the wrongs in the world. It is the ultimate fantasy of the narcissist. And we’ve got whole […]

At some point, some high-profile Arizona pol really should call the bluff of sanctuary cities by offering to release captured illegals into their custody in lieu of deporting them. If Gavin Newsom and Mike Bloomberg and Antonio Villaraigosa are all so hot to welcome the “undocumented,” fantastic: Arizona’s got an endless supply and will be […]

A long long time ago, I recall reading a feminist somewhere on the Web write that going on a date with a girl (and paying) didn’t entitle a man to sex, or even to a kiss goodnight. Well ladies, the flip side of that truth is that getting banged stupid by a guy doesn’t entitle […]

Absent Israeli action, no one should base their future plans on anything except coping with a nuclear Iran. — John Bolton Even if containment and deterrence might be more successful against Iran than just suggested, nuclear proliferation doesn’t stop with Tehran. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others will surely seek, and very swiftly, their […]

You know, and by the way, my opponent (Mark Critz), he now says that – you know that he’s not liberal but yet he goes to Washington, D.C., he raises money with Nancy Pelosi. He brought Joe Biden in who says that he wants no more coal plants in America. He’s raising money from the […]

The problem isn’t that things are collapsing. It’s that not enough things are collapsing. General Motors, AIG, and the government of California have committed enough errors to merit immediate extinction, but there they still are. Yet the political establishment continues to argue that the market needs to be prevented from delivering rough justice to sinners. […]

The pedo priests are trying to cover up the number of LITTLE GIRLS they have molested too, as if that doesn’t matter as much as what happens to boys. Trust me, the number of girls raped and molested by priests is at least double the boys. They are trying to cover it all up so […]