Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

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