A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

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

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

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