Current Wisdom

‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the  U.S. was too strong.’

– Ronald Reagan

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’

-Ronald Reagan

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”

-Ronald Reagan

“There’s no limit to the credit you can claim if you don’t care what’s accomplished.”

—author M. Stanton Evans on pragmatists.

“Just because he debates like a girl doesn’t mean we have to… “

—author and columnist Michelle Malkin on the radio debate between Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., and Rep. Michelle Bachman, R-Minn.

“Too many conservatives come to Washington thinking that it is a cesspool and wind up thinking it is a hot tub.”

—author M. Stanton Evans.

“This gives cognitive dissonance a bad name.”

—author M. Stanton Evans on bipartisan efforts to reform health care.

“Liberals don’t care what you do as long as it’s compulsory.”

—author M. Stanton Evans

“You cannot imagine my dismay to learn that the architect of the Van Jones debacle is a Stanford Graduate.” – Tom Flood, Stanford ’66

“The only way in which banking has changed after doing away with the Gold Standard is that hyperinflation has gotten worse.”

— Allan H. Meltzer, a professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University, speaking @ the American Enterprise Institute on October 28, 2009.