It's normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.

There actually have never been many shows as equally balanced as 'Crossfire.'

In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.

People with conservative temperaments don't become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they're all that way to some extent.

If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.

The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.

All that chatter you hear from yuppie parents at the playground about how expensive it is to 'do' bathrooms? It's all true. Every word, and worse.

All standards are double standards.

You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.

I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.