"Why should a British guy have to come to America and explain your presidents to the ignoramuses on the street when they've been put through public education, at considerable cost to this country, and with so little effect? It's the same with the slavery question. You hear people saying things like we've never addressed the … Continue reading Monday Quote →

"The politician creates a powerful, huge, heavy, and unstoppable Monster Truck of a government," P.J. O'Rourke writes in his new book, How the Hell Did This Happen? (Atlantic Monthly Press). "Then supporters of that politician become shocked and weepy when another politician, whom they detest, gets behind the wheel, turns the truck around, and runs them over."