But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.

Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.