Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.