In the course of crapping all over the basic decency and fairness that made America and its constitution the hope of humanity, Justice Antonin Scalia recently penned the most radical, useful words I've read in years.

The rest of us need to catch up with Scalia. Here's how we start.

My daughter better not be our first woman president.

She can't run until 2036. By then, a woman in the White House should be about as shocking as a woman police officer.

Should be.

But we can screw it up. We can screw it up by telling ourselves lies about...

Some psycho somewhere heard Senator Clinton's reprehensible reference to RFK's assassination and interpreted the words as a message: Kill Barack Obama, kill hope.

For Clinton now, any apology is meaningless. Dropping out of the race won't neutralize this poison she's thrown into the wind. Instead, decency compels her to...

Addressing Israeli lawmakers last week from the wussy pulpit of his shrinking presidency, George W. Bush slandered a giant of the U.S. Senate. He owes the man an apology.

I don't mean Senator Obama, who's shown he can smack down asinine GOP charges that the mere act of talking...

William H. Seward or Salmon P. Chase?

This -- in addition to being the most arcane, nerdy question I've ever typed -- is the crucial choice Senator Clinton now faces. Seward and Chase shared the indignity of losing their party's nomination to a relatively inexperienced opponent. That opponent, a guy...

Amy Poehler's performance as Senator Hillary Clinton on SNL gave me a fresh, exhilarating reminder of the power and usefulness of two of my favorite things to make: satire and overexposed photographs.

In their essence, the two have everything in common. Both rev up reality until we're able...

With our kids, we have this ritual we go through to help them steady themselves when the enormity of climbing a tree or learning to ride a two-wheeler gets them a bit frazzled.

"What's the first rule of tree-climbing?" we ask.

"Don't panic," they answer and compose...