When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

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

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.