Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.