Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead.

Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.

In the hands of fiends, guns will kill you. In your hands, they protect against such fiends.

Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to be an idiot. A jackass. It's cool to be a failure, as long as your failure is the basis for a reality show.

We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

What I'm going to miss is the competition, being, that's OK, I can watch from the house.

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.