America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

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

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

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.