Kathleen Parker on Sarah Palin:

Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League….

If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.

Kathleen Parker on William Ayers:

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In the days since Russian troops marched into Georgia, there have been any number of voices telling Americans that this is not our concern: It’s so far away. There are interminable ethnic conflicts involved. And it does not affect our national interest. Most of the voices saying these things say the same about Iraq, and they do so under the same misapprehension of the American national interest, which is a much more complicated thing than having or not having enemy troops massed at our borders.

In fact, the fate of Iraq holds great consequences for our national interest, for reasons that have been well discussed over the last few years. The fate of Georgia is similarly consequential to our national interest, though for some very different reasons. We ought to consider these reasons carefully before we are tempted to limit our response to this crisis to the probable State Department-supported strategy of writing a strongly-worded letter to Dmitry Medvedev.

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WESTMORELAND.

O that we now had here

But one ten thousand of those men in England

That do no work to-day!

KING.

What’s he that wishes so?

My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin.

If we are mark’d to die, we are enow

To step up security at our airports, to re-examine the effectiveness of our
intelligence networks, and to be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and dismantling their organizations of destruction; and if to live,

The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.

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