It Is In The Nature Of Tyranny

It Behooves Us To Avoid Archaisms. Never Use A Long Word When A Diminutive One Will Do.

Create Your Own Constituency Of The Infuriated.

I Want My Questions Answered By An Alert And Experienced Politician, Prepared To Be Grilled And Quoted -- Not My Hand Held By An Old Smoothie.

I Was Standing Next To A Famed Geo-politician When The First News Of The Argentine Attack [on The Faulkland Islands] Was Received, And Heard Him Muse Incredulously: "an Old-fashioned Naval Battle. A War Between Two Civilized Nations, Perhaps With Even A Declaration Of War, And Later A Peace Conference. Wow." No Hostages, No Nukes, No Ideologies, No Religious Fanaticism; Just A Fair-and-square War Over National Interests - Hard To Believe, In This Day And Age.

Never Look For The Story In The 'lede.' Reporters Are Required To Put What's Happened Up Top, But The Practiced Pundit Places A Nugget Of News, Even A Startling Insight, Halfway Down The Column, Directed At The Politiscenti. When Pressed For Time, The Savvy Reader Starts There.