As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.