Charles KrauthammerThinkers

The 2016 US Presidential Election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that, when Harry Reid can no longer consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.

Baseball is a slow game which one "takes in," which is something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics.

The Brady Bill is a bill whose only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

Climate change is problematic to address because, (A.) that there is no consensus, and (B.) the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.

Conservatism is the notion not that government has no role.

The Democrat is fiercely pro-choice for aborting a fetus, but, ironically, not for choosing one's child's school or joining a union.

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

International community is a fiction. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.