The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

Sports is the toy department of life.

The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion.