The Mars Polar Lander Cost The Average

Not Reassuring When Weathermen Say 'today Will Be Terrible But Don't Worry It Won't Be As Terrible As Tomorrow Or Friday.

If You Spend Any Time In Washington You'll Find Nerds. What Happens Is Most Of Them Sublimate Their Fixations With Comics, Or Baseball Cards, Or 1960s British Comedies To Policy Minutiae And Political Arcana. But, Like Christians In Ancient Rome, You Can Still Spot Them If You Know The Signals.

Progressivism Was A Sister Movement Of Fascism, And Today's Liberalism Is The Daughter Of Progressivism.

It Was In The 1960s That The Left Convinced Itself That There Is Something Fascistic About Patriotism And Something Perversely "patriotic" About Running Down America. Anti-americanism - A Stand-in For Hatred Of Western Civilization - Became The Stuff Of Sophisticates And Intellectuals As Never Before. Flag Burners Became The Truest "patriots" Because Dissent - Not Just From Partisan Politics, But The American Project Itself - Became The Highest Virtue.

[in] The Post-enlightenment World, Science [has] Taken The Place Of Magic, Miracles, And Superstition.