Michael Kinsley Quotes
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.
There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.
