“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, (106 BC-43 BC)
This constitutes “scientific” prognostication by Sen. Stabenow (D., Mich.) on the the Senate Energy Committee. What’s disheartening is the percentage of the USA population that will agree with her. Amazing!
http://bit.ly/Lt81r
Hmm…”activism” taken to its logical extreme? Where’s the tolerance, diversity, peace, love & understanding?
An amazing rant!
Chief Justice Roberts is awesome! Compare his final comment to the weak apologia of Stevens with Breyer’s concurrence.
I wish America had statesmen who would speak in this frank and direct manner to the President and our spendthrift Congress!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
For those who pontificate regarding Israeli “proportionality” and argue for a status quo ante, I recommend reading The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas. An excerpt:
The Prophet, Allah’s prayer and peace be upon him, says: “The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,’ except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Recorded in the Hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim).
Charles Krauthammer describes the latest Gaza conflict cogently:
“Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating.
Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life that, risking the element of surprise, it contacts enemy noncombatants in advance to warn them of approaching danger. Hamas, which started this conflict with unrelenting rocket and mortar attacks on unarmed Israelis — 6,464 launched from Gaza in the past three years — deliberately places its weapons in and near the homes of its own people.”
Why can’t AP communicate with such clarity?
