The plan envisions ordinary citizens serving their state in an important role for a short time and for minimal compensation. It is an interesting concept. Come to think of it, it sounds a whole lot like what the founders had in mind from the beginning.

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY once said he would sooner live in a society governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than in one governed by the faculty of Harvard University.

The primacy of suburbia, in California or elsewhere, should really not be very debatable. Roughly 51 percent of Americans, according to one recent survey, prefer to live in the suburbs, while only 13 percent opt for life in a dense urban place. A third wo

By and large, the older you get, the more you’re going to realize that your parents were right. More and more-until finally, you become your parents.