The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.
If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.
Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.
Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn't the least bit true. Many of the things government does, we don't choose. Many of the things we choose, government doesn't do. And whatever gets done, we're not the ones doing it. And those who are doing it often interpret their mandates selfishly.
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.
Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.
Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.
Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.
Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.
One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.
