Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

It is a wonderful thing when truly stupid ideas return to bite the people that promoted them.

Anyone who sends their children to a religious school may be permitted an 80% tax deduction of the tuition.

In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.

Who owns your mortgage? It might just be...nobody.

Having been put on the scent, the blogosphere discovered that this was only the tip of the iceberg.

Why "Hillary"? In 1980, did we have a race between Ronald and Jimmy?

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

Why such a difference between the handling of the California fires, vs Katrina in New Orleans?