Opportunity is missed by most people because its dressed in overalls and it looks like work.

Thomas Edison

True love and prayer are learned in the moment when prayer has become impossible and the heart has turned to stone. Thomas Merton

Seeing the Kennedys in the Rearview Mirror

"The Kennedys were more than a rich, bad family who gained temporary political power. They were demagogues of oligarchy. Disguised as populists, they championed the definitely privileged and supposedly enlightened few....There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers and this is knaves with moral justification for their cause. The Kennedy's thought the world would be a better place for having them run it."

Mordred had a Point-Camelot Revisited, P.J. O'Rourke in Give War a Chance, 1992

Earl Long's Advice to Crooked Pols

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."
Earl Long, Louisiana Governor Huey Long's brother, on how to conduct graft and other forms of political deceit.

Fast Lane to Bailoutistan

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small loss-making auto subsidiary. The UAW is the AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as “workers” (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.
Mark Steyn, OC Register

To Camelot with P.J. O'Rourke

"...the Kennedys didn't have a tragic flaw. The Kennedy's were themselves a tragic flaw of ours. And...they accomplished lots. They changed the nature of electioneering forever with thespian talents and piles of cash."
P.J. O'Rourke Mordred had a Point--Camelot Revisited from Give War a Chance

Mark Twain-Travel Agent

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
Mark Twain

Decide to Read

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain

Did Jesus have Walking Around Money?

Meanwhile, on the House floor last week, Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee compared Palin to Pontius Pilate -- and Obama to Jesus. Cohen said: "Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor." Yes, who can forget the Biblical account of how Jesus got the homeless Samaritan to register as a Democrat in exchange for a carton of smokes!
Ann Coulter