Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

Sports is the toy department of life.

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.