Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

I'll smoke anything. I won't spend a lot of money on cigars, because I consider that too self indulgent. $3, max, except for special occasions. And yes, I do know the difference.

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.