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

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.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.

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.