The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, powe….

I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move..

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about ….

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation..

Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or ….

I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local conversation has ….

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever..

Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured awa….

I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow..

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe..

And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up wavin….

The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Sa….

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen..

The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really are, strip….

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation..

You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with ….

Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the….

I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark ….

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions..

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold..

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention..