The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.