You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.
When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.
Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.
In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.
Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
Responsibility is good for your soul
Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.