It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nations homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action. – Leonard Boswell
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson