If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.