Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

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.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'