The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

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

Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.