In Science, Modesty And Genius Do Not

Don't Touch My Junk, You Airport Security Goon - My Package Belongs To No One But Me, And Do You Really Think I'm A Nigerian Nut Job Preparing For My 72-virgin Orgy By Blowing My Johnson To Kingdom Come?

Obama's Democrats Have Become The Part Of No. Real Cuts To Federal Budget? No. Entitlement Reform? No. Tax Reform? No. Breaking The Corrupt And Fiscally Unsustainable Symbiosis Between Public-sector Unions And State Governments? Hell No.

The War Is Not Going Well And It Is Time To Say Why. It Has Been Fought With Half-measures. It Has Been Fought With An Eye On The Wishes Of Our "coalition Partners." It Has Been Fought To Assuage The Arab "street." It Has Been Fought To Satisfy The Diplomats Rather Than The Generals... Why Have We Not Loosed The B-52s And The B-2s To Carpet-bomb Taliban Positions? And Why Are We Giving The Taliban Sanctuary In Their Cities? We Could Drop Leaflets Giving Civilians 48 Hours To Evacuate, After Which The Cities Become Legitimate Military Targets.

I Think The First Thing Is To Recognize A Mistake That Obama Made. And Others Have Made In Thinking That You Can Revolutionize A System That's Unbelievably Complex And Interlinked, One-sixth Of The Economy. That Was A Mistake Because Whenever You Change One Thing, It Changes 80 Other Things, And Now If You're Changing Everything At Once, You Have No Idea What The Outcome Is Going To Be And You Get All Of These Unintended Side Effects.

Some Will Protest That In A World With So Much Human Suffering, It Is Something Between Eccentric And Obscene To Mourn A Dog. I Think Not. After All, It Is Perfectly Normal—indeed, Deeply Human—to Be Moved When Nature Presents Us With A Vision Of Great Beauty. Should We Not Be Moved When It Produces A Vision—a Creature—of The Purest Sweetness?