Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The government should do good, where it can, whenever it can. That is President Obama's idea of pragmatism and bipartisanship: He's open to all ideas, from either side of the aisle, about how best to expand government and get the state more involved in our lives.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.