Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs..

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comical….

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent..

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul..

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration..

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was ….

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter..

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good….

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian..

I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down in….

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wr….

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it..

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that….

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his ….

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we….

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to ….

In America nothing dies easier than tradition..

The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quick….

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for ….

Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brai….

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politici….