Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.