Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

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

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.