If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

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

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

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.

Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?