There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.