The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.