Quote of the day

Joba Chamberlain, rookie pitching phenom for the Yankees, quoted in Sports Illustrated:

I get to come here on a weekend day and watch a major league game for free -- and maybe even get to pitch in it. What could be better than that?

Quote of the day

Loren B. Thompson, December 2006:

The controversy over what to do about Iraq has congealed into two camps: supporters of the President who lack a clear plan for achieving victory, and critics of the President who have a detailed plan for America's defeat.

(Via this path.)

Quote of the day

Victor Davis Hanson, describing Robert Kagan's new book, Dangerous Nation:

[A] tragic admission that the American character always wishes to do right, usually has the power to match word with deed, but not always the patience or wisdom to succeed.

No minced words quote of the day

The Examiner: "There appears to be no bottom to the pit of specious vacuity in which former president Jimmy Carter has been falling...."

(Hat tip.)