A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.
It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.
Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.
God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.