I Have Two Kids, And

We Have Seen Many Instances Where The Free World Didn't Seem To Understand The Nature Of Evil Or The Battle Against Evil In Their Time. We've Watched Nazism And Fascism And Imperial Japan And Communism And Totalitarianism, And Now It Seems To Be We're All Battling Against Terrorism.

People Don't Dream All Their Lives Of Escaping The Hellish Countries They Live In And Pay Their Life Savings To Underworld Types For The Privilege Of Being Locked Up In A Freezing, Filthy, Stinking Container Ship And Hauled Like Cargo For Weeks Until They Finally Arrive In Moscow Or Beijing Or Baghdad Or Kabul. People Risk Their Lives To Come Here---to New York. The Greatest City In The World, Where Dreams Become Reality.

I Was Born To Argue... I Don't Know Why. I Mean, From Arguing With My Teachers And, On Occasions, My Parents. I Think I've Mastered The Art Of Argument At A Fairly Young Age.

When I Hear The President Of The United States In A Great Little Rhetorical Flourish Talk About The Leavening Hand Of The Government, Everybody Knows That Leavening Hand Is Attached To The Long Arm Of The Internal Revenue Service. And No One Mistakes The Internal Revenue Service With Something Called Liberty.

It's Hard To Imagine That There Are People In The Country That Have Types Of Hateful, Inexcusable, Racist, White Supremacist Views.