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

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

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

If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.