Quote of the Day

| July 24, 2004

James Lileks: Unless you’ve spent some time in [Washington] DC you can’t imagine the tremendous self-importance that possesses the people who feed off the government. They’re like people who live in the same town where NASA has a tracking station, and think that it makes them all astronauts. (via the VodkaPundit.)

Quote of the Day

| July 23, 2004

Another Friday means another column from the inimitable Victor Davis Hanson. Today, he’s good for two quotes – I couldn’t decide between them: A dying generation of aging dissidents is desperately trying to find some final redemption to their life-long suspicion of the United States military. For these Vietnam-era retirees, the televised mayhem from Iraq […]