P.J. O'Rourke: An Alternative Inaugural Address

The Weekly Standard ^ | 01/24/05 | P.J. O'Rourke

[Gondring]

P.J. O'Rourke has called himself a "conservative libertarian"--a description I recall well, because of him saying he was a conservative with a libertarian bent...and I thought "that should be 'libertarian conservative,' then."

[Kook-Buster]

It's hard to beat:

"Thou shalt not kill." Why, in the opinion of jerks, is it wrong to kill a baby but all right to kill a baby that's so little he hasn't been born yet? And why do the same jerks who favor abortion oppose the death penalty? We can imagine people so full of loving kindness that they can accept neither the abortionist nor the executioner. We can even imagine people so cold-hearted that they embrace them both. But it takes a real jerk to argue in favor of killing perfect innocents and letting Terry Nichols live.