Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. The government's chief function is extorting money from us and giving it to others. It has the power to do with impunity what private persons would go to prison for doing. Politics is the other form of warfare that sometimes rests on dividing and conquering. Liberals are two-faced enough to pretend they never participate when, in fact, it's so often their very signature.
Negotiations are the bane of the West.
Nothing will shake our faith in the delusion that we can settle our differences with totalitarians, tyrants and thugs at the conference table. If we allow minor things such as paper and pencils to be lifted from us with meager resistance, there's no telling what the enemies of freedom might demand of us when they return tomorrow. Good stewardship of nature is important, but human lives come first. When equal protection is lost, it will be lost for everyone. Before we pony up more cash for the UN's dubious utopian schemes, President Bush ought to explain to Kofi Annan and his colleagues that We the People want more of our people looking after how all that money is spent.