Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by... liberals.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'