America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.