This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.