Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

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.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.