The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.