In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

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.

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

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