At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.