Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

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

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

Of course, it has never paid much.

Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.