Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

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

Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

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

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