Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

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

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.