Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.

Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.