I Like That Lady - Sarah Palin.

It Is One Of The Many Ironies Of This Period That, At A Time When The Intelligentsia Were Excoriating Mellon For Tax-evasion, And Contrasting The Smooth-running Soviet Planned Economy With The Breakdown In America, He Was Secretly Exploiting The Frantic Necessities Of The Soviet Leaders To Form The Basis Of One Of America's Most Splendid Public Collections

Marxism, Freudianism, Global Warming. These Are Proof - Of Which History Offers So Many Examples - That People Can Be Suckers On A Grand Scale. To Their Fanatical Followers They Are A Substitute For Religion. Global Warming, In Particular, Is A Creed, A Faith, A Dogma That Has Little To Do With Science.

Long Periods Of Recession, Which Tend To Be Self-perpetuating, Are Usually Ended By War, Or By Preparations For It.

A Capitalist Economy Hums When Leading Businessmen Are Bubbling With Animal Spirits And Are Prepared To Sink Their Money Into Risky Ventures.

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.