Thanks to all the readers who stopped by over the past year and whose return visits encourage me to keep at it. After a year of writing hundreds of thousands of words in more than 500 posts, I think Quillnews views can be distilled in these common American mottos: 1) In God We Trust. 2) Be prepared. 3) E Pluribus Unum. As an annual reprise this Thanksgiving weekend, here is some timely reading: useful core texts and some contemporary analysis. (Washington, Lincoln, PL, Claremont, Desolate Wilderness WSJ 1, Fair Land WSJ 2, Hitchens, Ignatius) For me, I want to give thanks for:
- America's people for their steadfast support for the liberation of Iraq (WT, Pew, Boot, PL) and who remain way smarter than the self-selecting elites in the MSM, academe, and the professional political shapeshifters who presume to be “opinion leaders.” As PL said, a quick analysis of the Pew poll methodology about how elites select themselves to be leaders as to what is the “correct” opinion, “makes me especially thankful, this year, for democracy, limited government and free enterprise: the best measures yet devised to protect us from our leaders.”
- America's military volunteers and their families. As said by Victor Davis Hanson: "Despite acrimony at home, the politics of two national elections and a third on the horizon, and the slander of war crimes and incompetence, those on the battlefield of Iraq have almost pulled off the unthinkable — the restructuring of the politics of the Middle East in less than three years."
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