The Easily Ridiculed, So-so Status Quo Often

California Is Now A Valuable Touchstone To The Country, A Warning Of What Not To Do. Rarely Has A Single Generation Inherited So Much Natural Wealth And Bounty From The Investment And Hard Work Of Those More Noble Now Resting In Our Cemeteries-and Squandered That Gift Within A Generation.

Did Either The Nonexistent Or The Measured Response After A Series Of Attacks On Americans The Past Decade - In Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, And Yemen - Suggest To Our Terrorist Enemies That It Was Wrong And Unwise To Kill Reasonable And Affable People, Or Did The Easy Killing Imply That Self-absorbed And Pampered Lotus-eaters Would Not Much Care Who Or How Many Were Butchered As Long As It Was Within Reasonable Numbers And Spread Out Over Time?

The United States Military Is Now Evolving Geometrically As It Gains Experience From Near-constant Fighting And Grafts New Technology Daily. Indeed, It Seems To Be Doubling, Tripling, And Even Quadrupling Its Lethality Every Few Years. And The Result Is That We Are Outdistancing Not Merely The Capabilities Of Our Enemies But Our Allies As Well - Many Of Whom Who Have Not Fought In Decades - At Such A Dizzying Pace That Our Sheer Destructive Power Makes It Hard To Work With Others In Joint Operations.

After Three Elections, Voters Finally Caught On That Obama's Faults Were Not In The Stars, But In Himself. They Apparently Tired Of The Usual Distractions From A Dismal Presidential Record.

Western Societies From Ancient Athens To Imperial Rome To The French Republic Rarely Collapsed Because Of A Shortage Of Resources Or Because Foreign Enemies Proved Too Numerous Or Formidable In Arms - Even When Those Enemies Were Grim Macedonians Or Germans. Rather, In Times Of Peace And Prosperity There Arose An Unreal View Of The World Beyond Their Borders, One That Was The Product Of Insularity Brought About By Success, And An Intellectual Arrogance That For Some Can Be The Unfortunate Byproduct Of An Enlightened Society.