Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.