So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.