Ann Althouse Quotes

You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?

Ann Althouse

• Door
• Answer
• Homes

A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.

Ann Althouse

• Winning
• Losing
• Give Up

Because of her style of interpretation, you could never tell whether she was gauging the political preferences of society ... reaching outcomes that were good in a policy or political way. People would criticize her as being mushy.

Ann Althouse

• Society
• Outcomes
• Reaching

Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.

Ann Althouse

• Game
• Playing
• Blogger

If the president does end up saying anything true, you can run it as tape but if he keeps lying like this every day on stuff this important, all of us should stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it's gonna cost lives.

Ann Althouse

• President
• Lying
• Saying

Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting "shut up"... when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be "civil."

Ann Althouse

• Talk
• Debate
• Challenged

If you eat meat, something like that is going on in the background for you too.

Ann Althouse

• Going
• Meat
• Background