"McCain ran an aggressive, hard-hitting campaign against former Congressman J. D. Hayworth. If he had taken this same kind of principled conservative and ‘take no prisoners’ campaign against Barack Obama in 2008, he’d now be in the second year of his presidency."

"The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author's words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas…. If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with 'content,' we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture."

"...media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."

"What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking."

"Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems."

"In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending."

"Worrying about what might go wrong may not be as glamorous a job as speculating about the future, but it is a more essential job right now."

"By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few."

"And here come the Left Brothers — Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson — barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid."

"I'm not mad at Limbaugh. He expresses no shame to the game he's been running for two decades. He's an opportunistic, race-baiting, anti-black entertainer. The popularity of the gangsta element of hip-hop music culture has allowed Limbaugh to proudly claim that his form of entertainment is mainstream."

"Having failed as an NFL commentator, Limbaugh understands the power of football."

"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."

"Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing. A writer must not shift your point of view. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. (Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.) Don't overuse exclamation marks!! Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, resist hyperbole. Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing. Always pick on the correct idiom. The adverb always follows the verb. Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; seek viable alternatives."

"Americans of all persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady – a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many of her generation – is a congenital liar."

"IN THE EVENT OF MOON DISASTER:"

"I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian. I was the first to really go after George W. on his treatment of prisoners."

"Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can’t beat Somebody with Nobody."

"Democracy unleashes the State in the name of the people."

"The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct."

"Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse."

"Instead of revealing the “will of the people,” election results are often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions."

"Bogus fears can produce real servitude."

"As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them."

"A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth."

"Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom."

"In the long run, people have more to fear from governments than from terrorists. Terrorists come and go, but power-hungry politicians will always be with us."

"It is impossible to destroy all alleged enemies of freedom everywhere without also destroying freedom in the United States."

"The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve."

"There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful."

"Truth is a lagging indicator in politics."

"Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans."

"The principle of government supremacy is Clinton's clearest legacy."

"The better that people understand what Clinton did in office, the greater the nation's chances for political recovery."

"Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy."

"For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying."

"The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom."

"Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people’s lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives."

"Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency."

"The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like a proven angel."

"Paternalism is a desperate gamble that lying politicians will honestly care for those who fall under their power."

"The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians."

"So much of political philosophy throughout history has consisted of concocting reasons why people have a duty to be tame animals in politicians’ cages."

"The federal tax system is turning individuals into sharecroppers of their own lives."

"The U.S. government has created a trade lynch law that can convict foreign companies almost regardless of how they operate."

"It should not be a federal crime to charge low prices to American consumers."

"The surest effect of exalting government is to make it easier for some people to drag others down."

"We need a constitutional amendment to make the federal government obey the Constitution."

"A law is simply a reflection of the momentary perception of self-interest by a majority of a legislative body."

"A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect."

"America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government."