Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.