If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy. - Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.