Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

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.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

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.

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.