It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.