It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.