There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.