James Taranto has a nice profile of The American Spectator editor, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., at The Wall Street Journal.

I like Tyrrell's description of conservatism as a "delight in the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

His description of modern liberalism isn't bad either:

"Mr. Tyrrell finds liberals' attitudes to be as vexing as their policies: 'There is only one political value that they have stood by through three generations, and that is the political value of disturbing your neighbor.' If conservatism is a temperament, he adds, 'liberalism is an anxiety—an anxiety about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,which explains their eagerness to coerce, to tax, to social-engineer.'"