We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.