A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world.