Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the Constitution by granting a blanket amnesty, with his efforts to do just that when it was no longer politically inexpedient. I don't think a president has ever quite so habitually warned the country of the dangers that would soon emanate from himself.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.