An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.
— Greg Gutfeld
Language turned apes like us into civil creatures.
What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.
The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.
Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.
The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.
I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.
Something to keep in mind, whether you adore Obama or Trump: Drooling toadyism is not a good look on either side, and it paves the way for evil. Because while hate can drive people to do many things, love permits leaders to do all things - none of them good.
President Obama's farewell speech soared, towered, dragged. True, it was longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and GWB's speeches combined. If it got any longer, it would have qualified as a third term.
Obama's tenure had more dirty linen then Charlie Sheen's hamper.
Hollywood is always about Hollywood.
Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He's a totem pole of transparency.
For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.
My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.
I know that, often, people in entertainment are surrounded by 'yes' men who tell you everything is 'go.' That's never been an issue for me.
There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.
Here is the problem with legacy: You'll sacrifice stuff that is not even yours to get it. Take President Obama's Iran deal, when he gave the shirt off his back - and ours, too.
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.
The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.
It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.
As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.
Islamists are nothing but guided missiles that pride themselves on taking out as many infidels as possible.
Before there was radical Islam, immigration and terror didn't mix.
As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.
Normally, 'Saturday Night Live' is about as entertaining as an ocular migraine.
The PC rebellion is about a reaction against the media academic complex, which tells us what to say - or else.
As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.
The rise of ISIS, the orgy of identity politics, and the political changes they brought - how could Obama not see that coming? I blame the golf.
If Obama was a sonnet, Trump is a limerick. And really, which ones do you enjoy more?
I've said it before: If Queen had died and reincarnated as one person, it would be Devin Townsend.
Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.
It's pointless to get all huffy about stuff.
Getting mad only leads to madness.
By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.
ObamaCare was a lemon, but the media were his lemonheads.
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.
There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.
Trump's policies are a mix of fairly traditional things. Even his immigration stuff isn't really that new.
Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.
Imagine Earth as a crime-ridden town, and there is one safe house. How do you keep that safe house, America, always safe? It is called vigilance.
As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.
What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.
As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.
Sully's' upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.
Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.
I've interviewed everyone from Joe Strummer to Iggy Pop.
For years, we talked about how the only way to really win the political battles was to win the cultural ones. And rather than simply ignore pop culture, it would be far better to give it a big fat bear hug.
When I imagine my viewer - and it sounds saccharine - but it's a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.
The truly persuasive must step out of themselves and see their own flaws first and admit they could be wrong. Then, when they correct for that, you can be truly persuasive.
