Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.