Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break the law, that he is more powerful than the law.

It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.

In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.