For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.