Just make sure, if you’re going to get on your high horse, that you’re calling it on both sides.

The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. … It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

–Ronald Reagan, whose 101st birthday is today.

Slavery.

“…just make you leaner.”

How’d that work out, exactly, for us in the ‘90s?

Cuts.

Obstructionist.

Perspective

Seems just as applicable now as it did nine months ago.

Make no mistake: America is in a media war. It is an extension of the Cold War that never ended but shifted to an electronic front. The war between freedom and statism ended geographically when the Berlin Wall fell. But the existential battle never ceased.

—Andrew Breitbart, Righteous Indignation