There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.