Bad News Is Dramatic. It Makes Good

No One Will Remember That President Obama Supported The Arab Spring If It Eventually Fails And The Region Collapses Back Into The Political Dark Ages. If We Actively Engage These Movements With Advice, With Money, And, When Necessary, With Military Force, Then We Get A Vote In How It All Turns Out.

War Is Life Multiplied By Some Number That No One Has Ever Heard Of.

There Is Some Evidence That Average Wave Heights Are Slowly Rising, And That Freak Waves Of Eighty Or Ninety Feet Are Becoming More Common. Wave Heights Off The Coast Of England Have Risen An Average Of 25 Percent Over The Past Couple Of Decades, Which Converts To A Twenty-foot Increase In The Highest Waves Over The Next Half Century. One Cause May Be The Tightening Of Environmental Laws, Which Has Reduced The Amount Of Oil Flushed Into The Oceans By Oil Tankers.

War Is A Lot Of Things And It's Useless To Pretend That Exciting Isn't One Of Them. (pg. 144)

I Would Never Want To Pass A Law Limiting Freedom Of Speech, But That Doesn't Mean We Have To Condone Statements That Undermine Basic National Unity And Respect. Imagine Being Asked To Defend A Country Where Some Citizens Say The Man In The White House Isn't Their President. Or A Major Presidential Contender Accuses The Commander In Chief Of Not Even Being A U.s. Citizen. Those Kinds Of Statements Erode Trust In Our Democracy, And It's Up To Both Parties To Publicly Reject Them. We Have To Restore Confidence That We Are A Nation That Loves And Believes In Itself.