To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?