Quotes from Michael Barone

Was a dead Vietnamese in civilian clothes part of the enemy forces? Officers started to make up numbers to give their superiors the body count they wanted.

Princess Mary, William's wife, and Princess Anne cooperated in the ouster of their father, James II. It was, as Pocock continues, "a spectacular display of reason of state rising above the restraints of common morality; daughters dethroned their father, even the sanitized version of King Lear was hard to perform for many years, and what William of Orange and John Churchill severally did is still enough to take your breath away if you think about it.

We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.

All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?