A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.