The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

On the larger issue of the travel ban, our friend Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post I think put it pretty well. I'm not sure it's illegal, but it's extremely stupid.

The reason the Betsy DeVos case was the centerpiece case for the Democrats wasn't about her weakness as a knowledgeable person on education policy.

I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.

Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it

It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.