Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

The system has evolved to protect parties from people like Donald Trump. It really is true that people without well-established public records, without proven capability in public service, without tested beliefs and at least apparently under the influence of a foreign power, such people are screened out by major parties.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today's Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, "Let's toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance" - if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it's like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.