Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
George Will[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
George WillWhen a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.
George WillRomney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.
George WillInvariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
George WillRepublicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, "Necessitous men are not free men."
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