Here's A Thought: One Thing A Penny Still Buys

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Balancing Liberty And Responsibility In The Land Of Opportunity

"What America should ultimately do is erect a statue of responsibility in San Fransicso Harbor to offset the Statue of Liberty in New York to remind us constantly that without one we cannot have the other." -- Rollo May, humanist/existentialist psychologist Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

When There Is A Disconnect Between Civilian And Military Leadership

"Of particular concern has been the conflation of al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a single, undifferentiated terrorist threat. This was a strategic error of the first order because it ignored critical differences between the two in character, threat level, and susceptibility to U.S. deterrence... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Someone Should've Told The Iraqis That Months Don't Equal Years

"Bremer: Democracy is on the march in this country. Rumsfeld: And if you think about it, it happened in four or five months. Four or five months. Not four or five years. Four or five months. If one looks back oat Germany, at Japan, at Bosnia or Kosovo, and measures the progress that's taken place in... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Summing Up The Iraq Fiasco

"Speed didn't kill the enemy -- it bypassed him. It won the campaign, but it didn't win the war, because the war plan was built on the mistaken strategic goal of capturing Baghdad, and it confused removing Iraq's regime with the far more difficult task of changing the entire country. The result was... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 18, 2007

Well, Someone Had To Say It... And Who Better?

"You've got to turn off the Spanish television set. It's that simple. You've got to learn English." -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, explaining assimilation to a roomful of journalists Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Republican Senator Sessions Comment On Bush, The Pusher

"Frankly, I think the president is wrong to push this piece of legislation so hard after we demonstrated the flaws that are in it. He needs to back off." -- Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, referring to the "Bush Push" toward passing the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Best Quote From The Republican Debate On CNN

"I would certainly not send him to the United Nations." -- Tommy Thompson, former Bush administration Health Secretary Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

One Thing That Senator Hillary Clinton Got Right

"... this is George Bush's war. He started it; he mismanaged it; and he refuses to end it." -- Senator Hillary Clinton, CNN Democratic debate Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 28, 2007

This Guy Should Write The Biography Of George W. Bush

"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools." - - Doug Larson Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Way To Lend Your Support With The Facts Of The Matter...

"This is a group that has been involved in violence to achieve whatever their stated objective may be." -- Sean McCormick, State Department spokesman, speaking on the Lebanese shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp supposedly harboring al Qaeda-affiliated extremists Sign in to see full entry.

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