By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.