If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.