Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.