Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs or working for less, trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge [Samuel] Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of the individual citizens. He has acted instead in favor of government, large corporations and other powerful interests.

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

I believe that the Constitution is not hostile to the idea that national problems can be solved at the national level through the cooperative efforts of the three coequal branches of government, the Congress, the executive and courts. But not every president, not every legislator and not every judge agrees that the federal government has the power to address and to try to remedy the twin national problems of poverty and access to equal opportunity.