Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century..

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal..

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people informat….

Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa….

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned..

One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth ….

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy..

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics..

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy..

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth..

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia….

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own..

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth..

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science ….

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notic….

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy..

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not….

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing ….

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals..

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism..

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate..