The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.