It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

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

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

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

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn't the least bit true. Many of the things government does, we don't choose. Many of the things we choose, government doesn't do. And whatever gets done, we're not the ones doing it. And those who are doing it often interpret their mandates selfishly.