Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.