Quotes from Glenn Reynolds

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens' lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.