Quote of the Day

Jay Nordlinger, who writes for National Review Online, reporting the words of Jianli Yang, dissident Chinese scholar, poet, and advocate of democracy, on the state of human rights in the People's Republic of China:

In their six decades of dictatorship, the Chinese Communists have killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined.

You can argue that setting this record was easy in the world's most populous nation, but it is still an ugly "accomplishment," one not to be envied.