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.

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

A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.

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

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.