Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves.

Talking to liberals is much more fun now that we have Lexis-Nexis.

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

I'm not going to be lectured to.

Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War II, they were aggressively excluded from neighborhoods, jobs, and homes - not because of their skin color, but their accents.