The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.

President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.