Better To Be Paralyzed From The Neck

Courage Is Not A Quality One Normally Associates With Mathematicians. Yet It Should Apply To People Who Work In Their Attics In Secret For Seven Years Without Cease On A Problem That Has Eluded The Greatest Mathematical Minds Since First Proposed In 1637.

Pass Legislation. When Obama Signs, You've Shown Seriousness And The Ability To Govern. When He Vetoes, You've Clarified The Differences Between Party Philosophies And Prepared The Ground For 2016.

The Conservative Idea Is Not That Government Has No Role. You Might Have Argued That In The Thirties When Conservatives Opposed The New Deal.

In An Essay 10 Years Ago, I Pointed Out That It Is Utterly Logical For Polygamy Rights To Follow Gay Rights. After All, If Traditional Marriage Is Defined As The Union Of (1) Two People Of (2) Opposite Gender, And If, As Advocates Of Gay Marriage Insist, The Gender Requirement Is Nothing But Prejudice, Exclusion And An Arbitrary Denial Of One's Autonomous Choices In Love, Then The First Requirement - The Number Restriction (two And Only Two) - Is A Similarly Arbitrary, Discriminatory And Indefensible Denial Of Individual Choice.

To His Credit, Obama Didn't Just Come To Washington To Be Someone. Like Reagan, He Came To Washington To Do Something -- To Introduce A Powerful Social Democratic Stream Into America's Deeply And Historically Individualist Polity.