So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

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

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

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.