QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 10:18 A.M. ET:  Thomas Sowell is a brave African-American writer who gets plenty of grief for telling the truth.  This is one of the best things he's written recently.  From Townhall.com: 

Hillary Clinton became an iconic figure by feeding the media and the left the kind of rhetoric they love. Barack Obama did the same and became president. Neither had any concrete accomplishments besides rhetoric beforehand, and both have had the opposite of accomplishments after taking office.

They have something else in common. They attract the votes of those people who vote for demographic symbolism -- "the first black president" to be followed by "the first woman president" -- and neither to be criticized, lest you be denounced for racism or sexism.

It is staggering that there are sane adults who can vote for someone to be President of the United States as if they are in school, just voting for "most popular boy" or "most popular girl" -- or, worse yet, voting for someone who will give them free stuff.

Whoever holds that office makes decisions involving the life and death of Americans and -- especially if Iran gets a nuclear arsenal -- the life and death of this nation. It took just two nuclear bombs -- neither of them as powerful as those available today -- to get a very tough nation like Japan to surrender.

Anyone familiar with World War II battles in the Pacific knows that it was not unusual for 90 percent of the Japanese troops defending Iwo Jima or other islands to fight to the death, even after it was clear that American troops had them beaten.

When people like that surrender after two nuclear bombs, do not imagine that today's soft Americans -- led by the likes of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton -- will fight on after New York and Chicago have been reduced to radioactive ashes.

Meanwhile, ISIS and other terrorists are giving us a free demonstration of what surrender would mean. But perhaps we can kick the can down the road, and leave that as a legacy to our children and grandchildren, along with the national debt.

COMMENT:  The word "crisis" is substantially overused in the press.  We seem to have a crisis every minute.  But if there's one crisis we definitely face today it's the breathtaking immaturity that has come over this land.  We treat college students like babies, and they demand to be treated that way.  As Tom Sowell notes, we elect major officeholders as if they're running in a school election. 

And our president behaves like a petulant child.

We have growing up to do.  Electing Hillary Clinton will not help matters.

March 24, 2015