Be still my beating heart...

The mighty HODAR bought me a couple of books for my birthday: "When All Hell Breaks Loose" by Cody Lundin and the one I've started reading, "America Alone" by Mark Steyn.

I'm not even through the prologue, and already Steyn has me hooked:

... The state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood - health care, child care, care of the elderly - to the point where it's effectively severed its citizens from humanity's primal instincts, not least the survival instinct. In the American context, the federal "deficit" isn't the problem; it's the government programs that cause the deficit. These programs would be wrong even if Bill Gates wrote a check to cover them each month. They corrode the citizen's sense of self-reliance to a potentially fatal degree. Big government is a national security threat: it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it less likely you'll be able to summon the will to rebuff it. We should have learned that lesson on September 11, 2001, when big government flopped big-time and the only good news of the day came from the ad hoc citizen militia of Flight 93."

It's all I can do to not run in the bedroom, wake my wife, and read aloud.

Through the speakers tonight: "Trust" by Megadeth.