The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Quote by George Will

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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it...

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it...

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's...

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's...

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be...

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be...

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only...

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only...

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the...

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the...

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing...

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing...

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven...

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven...

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he...

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he...

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity...

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity...

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy...

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy...

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between...

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between...

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of...

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of...

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are...

In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are...

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.