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

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

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

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

... 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.