Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.