“Most of these people are not rational.”
Jennifer Call on Congressman Ron Paul’s supporters.
Consider this an open thread.
“That’s the real trap of government expansion — it feeds on itself, and the money always runs short.”
- Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters
“The terrorist masters of Hamas, with their exuberant outburst of murder last week, have taken themselves hostage. This is no time to give in to terrorist demands. As we’ve learned, that only encourages them. If they will not release themselves, there is nothing we can do for them. If Hamas is bent on destroying itself, we shouldn’t try to stop them. If Fatah wants to lead the Palestinians, it will need to show it is capable of doing so.”
- Jules Crittenden at Pajamas Media
“This celebration of lawlessness is not conservative. It’s something much more radical.”
Andrew Sullivan on Judge Scalia (who seems to be inspired by… Jack Bauer).
“The Iranian people as a whole are a lot more cosmopolitan than the provincial clerics that act as dictators over them.”
“a culture of destruction is, inevitably, a culture of self-destruction.”
- John Podhoretz, “Self-Rule? Try Mob Rule.” The New York Post.
“Too often […] religious people are concerned about their own bodies and other people’s souls. In truth, we should be concerned about our own souls and other people’s bodies.”
- Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, quoted by The Jewish Week.
“If the Senate passes a bill, immigration then becomes a hot potato for the House, where 61 of Pelosi’s Democrats represent Republican-leaning districts (Bush carried them). Hark! what discord will follow. What fun.”
- George F. Will, the Washington Post
“Frankly, I think people should consider spending less time considering Harry Truman.”
“It has become de rigeur to ignore nuanced or complex positions in favor of simplistic narratives and a very narrow, linear notion of causation. It’s part of the Homer Simpson trend in society, where education and the ability to think clearly about complex issues is actively discouraged and denigrated by many.”
“we should think of people as individuals rather than members of special interest groups. We instinctively reject the doctrine of multiculturalism in which people are herded into different pens, with respective grievances and rights. By concentrating on defining the various cultures that have come to call Britain home, we have forgotten to define the most important one: our own.”
“To say we will withdraw the support so that they can succeed, because it’s taking them a long time to do it - it really is kind of the equivalent of saying, ‘You’re not doing something I want, I’ll shoot myself’.”
Comments from Left Field: “To me, the greatest sin of Paris is that she contributes nothing. She is part of the new vogue to be willingly ignorant. She embodies cool dumbness as easily as she does irresponsibility and gets away with it time and again, and while we sadly chuckle her off and shake our heads, our daughters are learning.”
“Conservativism”
T. Thompson during the Republican debate yesterday.
LThomas: “The Key to regional peace and stability in this region is the Palestinian question. They have become the lightening rod for all forms of radical and extreme groups to flock to in efforts to undermine the peace of this region for whatever myriad of political and religious reasons they have embraced. Abbas and Haniyeh must realize that each step forward is one step that they cannot retrace backwards and it is one step on the road to offering hope to their people. Each step towards democracy is one less step that has to be taken on the road to success.
“Here in lies the fate, future and hope of the Palestinian people. A hope that their leaders can find common ground and salvage a future for their people that does not include Terror, hate and hostility. Because they are slowly, painfully slowly learning that this accomplishes nothing and that truly the only ones to suffer have been the Palestinian people.”
“Humankind is simultaneously beautiful and pitiful.”
“And frankly, Generation Y in it’s constant drive for the almighty dollar is having a snowball effect in driving businesses to constantly re-invent themselves in the fashion of outsourcing overseas. The greed of employees is an increasing factor in the loss of high paying jobs.”
- Reader ‘Interested’
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: “To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.”
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
- Margaret Thatcher
Andrew Sullivan’s Quote for the Day:
“When a newly revitalized al-Qaeda carries out a 9/11-scale attack, you will own that one,” - Senator Kit Bond, yesterday, to his Democratic colleagues in the Senate.
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