The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.