Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning - they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

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

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.