I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.

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.

I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.

It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.

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

Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.