If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.

I always thought there was some romance to that '30s leftist stuff, even though I'm a Republican.

Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.

When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.