You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

Political courage requires clarity. The Obama Administration chose the tortured route of arguing the legality of the individual mandate via the interstate commerce clause for one simple reason: it did not want to take the political risk of allowing opponents to call it a tax increase. That was stupid. The Republicans were calling it a tax increase anyway.

For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.