In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a Thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself.

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

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

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

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