So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment requiring the sun to rise in the east; it would fall under the category of obvious truths that the Constitution need not address.

The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.

Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.