DEFENSE OF FAMILY: It has become obvious that the actions of private individuals ["consenting adults"] in the aggregate exert a profound influence on other individuals and on society as a whole. In fact, when enough individuals behave primarily with regard to their own self-fulfillment, the entire culture is transformed. -- Mary Ann Glendon, "Principled Immigration," opinionjournal.com, 5/31/06

ARMS: An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. -- Robert Heinlein

WELFARE: Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right. -- Lawrence Auster

LIBERALS: Liberalism IS a religion. -- Ann Coulter

IRAQ WAR: Solid signs that conditions in Iraq are improving: (1) Refugees -- there are none; Iraqis are returning home. (2) Pilgrimages to Shiite shrines -- almost none in 2003; now, 12 million annually make them the most visited spots inthe Muslim world. (3) Value of the Iraqi currency -- increased 18 percent against US dollar last year. (4) Small/Medium business activity -- booming! (5) Iraqi willingness to express opinions -- silent under Hussein, now the most vocal in the Arab world. -- Amir Taheri, "The Real Iraq", commentarymagazine.com, June2006

IRAQ WAR: Is Iraq a quagmire, a disaster, a failure? Certainly not; none of the above. Of all the adjectives used by skeptics and critics to describe today'sIraq, the only one that has a ring of truth is "messy." ... Births always are. -- Amir Taheri, "The Real Iraq", commentarymagazine.com, June 2006

LIBERALS: Liberals can believe what they want to believe, but let us not flinchfrom identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God. -- Ann Coulter, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism"

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: Same sex marriage is a massive social experiment, completely unprecedented in human history. American society has not recovered from the last round of social experimentation. -- Jennifer Roback Morse, townhall.com, 6/12/06