I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.