I Think Of Texas As The Laboratory

I Don't So Much Mind That Newspapers Are Dying - It's Watching Them Commit Suicide That Pisses Me Off.

Conservatives Have Been Mad At The Supreme Court Since It Decided To Desegregate The Schools In 1954 And Seen Fit To Blame The Federal Bench For Everything That Has Happened Since Then That They Don't Like.

The Charm Of Ronald Reagan Is Not Just That He Kept Telling Us Screwy Things, It Was That He Believed Them All. No Wonder We Trusted Him, He Never Lied To Us. ... His Stubbornness, Even Defiance, In The Face Of Facts ('stupid Things,' He Once Called Them In A Memorable Slip) Was Nothing Short Of Splendid. ... This Is The Man Who Proved That Ignorance Is No Handicap To The Presidency.

Populism Is The Simple Premise That Markets Need To Be Restrained By Society And By A Democratic Political System. We Are Not Socialists Or Communists, We Are Proponents Of Regulated Capitalism And, I Might Add, People Who Have Read American History.

And The Funny Thing Is, I've Always Been An Optimist - It's Practically A Congenital Disorder With Me.