Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

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

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.