A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

It’s a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to cause harm, consisting, as it does, of the earnest wish of certain loving couples to join themselves to that very institution and thus to feel themselves, and be accepted as, full members of the American (and human) family.