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

The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

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

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

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