Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

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

The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.