A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.