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

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.