It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Public sector unions are not the same thing as private sector unions, and should not be able to collectively bargain.

Why should Romney attack Perry directly when the Democrats, the liberal media and Michele Bachmann will do it for him? Romney's strategists note that Perry will have to survive five debates in six weeks--ample opportunity for Bachmann to "rip his eyes out" (as she did to Tim Pawlenty) or for Perry to blow himself up.

The general election may have already started because Hillary Clinton has continued to fall farther behind in the Democratic primaries.

The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law enacted in 2002stifles political speech, protects incumbent politicians, and consolidates power in Washington.

Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight is part sinner, part saint.

American political alignments are not written on an empty slate. Beginnings matter, and the civic personalities of states tend to reflect the cultural folkways of their first settlers.