The purpose of terrorism, wherever it occurs, is to create fear that is disproportionate to the size of any terrorist risk. . . .

This presidency has about as much subtlety as a grade-B western, soap opera, or teen-age tantrum. . . .

The result of the Jewish Agency's report released on Sunday showing global anti-Semitism spiraling out of control recalls the memorable line in the film Casablanca, in which police Captain Renault announces that Rick's Cafe must be closed because of illegal activity. . . .

Now that the voters of Massachusetts have splashed our hypnotized young god back into his own reflecting pool, it is almost surreal to follow the left’s sudden petulance and occasional hysteria — akin to the climate of 2005-6 among some of the right when the once pro-Iraq War neocons began bailing and heading for the exits. . . .