Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

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