There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.