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

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

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.