In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.