Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

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

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.