In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.