I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good works were a cost center like the electric bill. The reason why the foundation exists wasn't to do good work. It was to serve as sort of a place to park lugubrious sycophants like Sidney Blumenthal and other henchman, a place to serve as a super PAC, a place park her campaign while they were a government in exile

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

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

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.