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After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions…

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Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography,…
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa,…
For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to…
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost…
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all…
The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way…
The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it…
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political…
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant…
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for…

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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. — Margaret Atwood
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. — Brendan Behan
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye
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Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is… — Jimmy Carter
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary… — Charles Dickens
About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number… — Joshua Slocum
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language… — W. S. Gilbert
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in… — Robert Louis Stevenson
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging… — Miguel de Unamuno
There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to… — M.F.K. Fisher
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces… — Thomas Carlyle

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