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.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.