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

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

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping, yes, this would be a transfer of income from the poor to the rich. But allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money does not qualify as taking it from the poor - unless you believe that the poor have a moral claim to the money other people earn.

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

I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local conversation has come to an end. However, I believe that if the newspapers of the country pool their resources, we can send an Arnold-Schwartzenegger-style robot back in time to kill the inventor of the Internet, and then our future will be much brighter.

The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.