Insty linked the Blog of the Hour:
One of the fundamental problems with politicians is their ability to conceive ideas above their station, to take on vague challenges and ill-considered objectives that, humans being what they are and the world being what it is, are simply impossible to achieve. Modern political discourse is filled with such ideas: the abolition of poverty, the ending of racism, complete egalitarianism in race, colour, and creed. The only thing these goals have in common is that they are all equally unattainable, from a purely realistic standpoint. To achieve them you'd have to do nothing less than completely subvert human nature; and not even the Soviet Union could do that.
Indeed. His nom de plume, Gallowglass, refers to the warriors of ancient Ireland, who threw out the Vikings at Clontarf in 1014. I salute both.
Commonsense Political Thought did me the courtesy of linking my fisking of Lynne Mucken after excorciating it himself. I like to return such favors.
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