History Is Replete With Examples

Warren Buffett Pays Taxes On A Smaller Percentage Of His Billions In Income Than His Cleaning Lady.

The Word Liberal Has Been Employed As The Political Equivalent Of An Untreatable But Potentially Containable Social Disease -- The Kind That Could Be Contracted Merely By Going To A Foreign Movie Or Ordering A Decaf Latte, Or Worse, A Glass Of French Wine.

Obama, Like Carter, Is Reacting To Warning Signs By Seeking To Split The Difference Between Dispirited Democrats And Increasingly Radicalized Republicans.

Fox News Is Nothing If Not Impressive. No Matter How Harsh The Criticism It Endures, The Network Somehow Always Manages To Prove Itself Even Worse Than We Had Previously Imagined.

Ironically, Tendency To Ignore Inconvenient Facts And Unwelcome Evidence Is Actually President Reagan's True Legacy, As I Noted In 'the Nation' Back In 2000, Before The Current Right-wing Mania For President Reagan Gained Its Full Force.