...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about "moralizers." Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion - you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other people's children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise.

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

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.

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.