Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?