Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

There are many levels of truth.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.