Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

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.