It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.