With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

God’s at work, lightening every load!

What I want???I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it?

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.

I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.

Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.