I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.