Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn’t have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.
I’ve always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.
People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.
Not everything that is legal is reputable.
Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.
Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.
If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.
The police can’t use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York’s mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.
History is but the polemics of the victor.
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.