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.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

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

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

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

Most recently, the president's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum - a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives - was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.