That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.