Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.