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News that Sheikh Mohammed Khalid is being brought to the United States for trial is bad news for a nation already traumatized by years of having Sheikh Mohammed Khampblah on the prowl. Will this tip Americans over the edge? Will they be able even to tell the pair apart?

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Life is too short to compromise time and resources...

"Critics of our policies are given to lecturing on the theme of being consistent with American values, but no moral value held dear by the American people obliges public servants to sacrifice innocent lives to spare a captured terrorist from unpleasant things. And when an entire population is targeted by a terror network, nothing is more consistent with American values than to stop them."

"I don't think America's moving toward Socialism. I think it's moving toward the idea that government can solve people's problems."

"The HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR is the government official who REFUSES to waterboard someone who may have information about a terrorist attack that could kill thousands of innocent lives."

"[O]f those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants."

"Quick! Before he gets back. Let’s do it! We’ve only got eight days. He’s going on a five-country Apology Tour, meeting with countries upset over 1) the Iraq War, and 2) treatment of enemy combatants at Gitmo.

"In order to live a full life, you have to burn about something!"

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"The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy.

"To paraphrase Burke, all that is necessary for barbarism to triumph is for civilized men to do nothing: but in fact for the past few decades, civilized men have done worse than nothing—they have actively thrown in their lot with the barbarians.

"Obama must be stopped or the U.S. will cease to exist." (Hat-tip: Marcus)

Mr. President, Keep the Airways Free.

I have a straightforward question, which I hope you will answer in a straightforward way:

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people.

"The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades.

"Hendrix is rubbish and could only have been considered great in a counter-culture as mindless, and tragically anti-everything, as the one he became a hero within.

Is this how capitalism ends, not with a revolutionary bang but a whimper? A culture war has been launched against free markets and so far the hostilities have been astonishingly one-sided: those of us who believe in the power of competition as the most powerful engine of human improvement have barely raised a protest.

Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide. Let's see now...

"If liberty remains, it will be because of those of us who are willing to get angry over this and call it as it is.

"Some people take solace from the fact that Senator Obama has verbally shifted position on some issues, like drilling for oil or gun control, since this is supposed to show that he is 'pragmatic' rather than ideological.

"Government regulation is not an alternative means of protecting the consumer.

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Milton Friedman

"It’s great to be in New York. When I see the skyscrapers and office buildings, I think of what Ayn Rand said: 'The sky over New York and the will of man made visible.'

"It was not the Federal Reserve, it was not government intervention, that took the blame for the 1929 depression—it was capitalism.

"Objectivist intellectuals need to regain their self-confidence and their courage. They have too often become timid, stodgy and conservative.

"What little faith I had in financial wizardry was blown away 10 years ago when Long Term Capital Management, a hedge fund set up by a couple of economists with Nobel Prizes in the cupboard, went pop. Lehman, I'm afraid, went the same way: bamboozling itself.