“In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignor...” — Newt Gingrich Quote

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.

The courts are supposed to be the inferior branch of our three branches of government.

There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.