To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

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

Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

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

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.