Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
Putin needs to understand and feel in his gut that if the Chechens get a nuclear bomb, they're going to Moscow first, they're not coming to New York.
When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U. S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.
Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U. S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.
By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.
Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.