History Is Not Just Cruel.

Clashes Of Values And The Struggle For Primacy Constitute A Constant In Human History That Accounts For That Other Constant - Conflict And War.

For All The Sublimity Of Art, Physics, Music, Mathematics, And Other Manifestations Of Human Genius, Everything Depends On The Mundane, Frustrating, Often Debased Vocation Known As Politics (and Its Most Exacting Subspecialty - Statecraft). Because If We Don't Get Politics Right, Everything Else Risks Extinction.

With Our Financial House On Fire, Obama Makes Clear Both In In His Speech And His Budget That The Essence Of His Presidency Will Be The Transformation Of Health Care, Education And Energy.

I Distrust All Multiculturalism, Liberal Or Conservative. The Balkans Amply Demonstrate The Perils Of Balkanization.

Tuesday's Victory Was Big. But It Did Nothing More Than Level The Playing Field And Give You A Shot. Take It.