Not Everything That Is Legal Is Reputable.

It Was Rumored, In 1946, That The Hangman In Nuremberg Adjusted The Nooses Of Some Of The Condemned To Magnify The Pain Of Suffocation. Such Sadism Was Not Called For Then And Is Not Called For Now. But If Fornication Is Wrong, There Is No Denying That It Can Bring Pleasure. The Death Of Saddam Hussein At Rope's End Brings A Pleasure That Is Undeniable, And Absolutely Chaste In Its Provenance.

Conservatism Is The Tacit Acknowledgement That All That Is Finally Important In Human Experience Is Behind Us; That The Crucial Explorations Have Been Undertaken, And That It Is Given To Man To Know What Are The Great Truths That Emerged From Them.

The Amount Of Money And Of Legal Energy Being Given To Prosecute Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Who Are Caught With A Few Ounces Of Marijuana Makes No Sense.

The Real Threat, As Seen By The Aclu, Is That Religious Behavior Might Give Secular Behavior A Bad Name, And That Is, Surely, Unconstitutional.

There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Reliance On The State And Self-reliance.