Preemption Is A Kind Of Pre-deterrence That

Third Parties In America Gravitate Not Only To The Extremes, But To Irrelevance. (john Anderson's Upcoming Presidential Campaign Will Undoubtedly Confirm Both Tendencies.)

Passing A Law Like The Assault Weapons Ban Is A Symbolic - Purely Symbolic - Move In That Direction. Its Only Real Justification Is Not To Reduce Crime But To Desensitize The Public To The Regulation Of Weapons In Preparation For Their Ultimate Confiscation.

If Obama Has His Way, The Change That Is Coming Is A New America: "fair," Leveled And Social Democratic. Obama Didn't Get Elected To Warranty Your Muffler. He's Here To Warranty Your Life.

Take All Your Dukes And Marquesses And Earls And Viscounts, Pack Them Into One Chamber, Call It The House Of Lords To Satisfy Their Pride And Then Strip It Of All Political Power. It's A Solution So Perfectly Elegant And Preposterous That Only The British Could Have Managed It.

I Began My Journalistic Career On The Day Ronald Reagan Was Sworn In. That's The Day I Showed Up For Work At 'the New Republic' Magazine.