Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.