Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.