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

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

But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.

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.

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.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.