The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
Michael KinsleyIf 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.
Michael KinsleyIn those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
Michael Kinsley