The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books at all.

I don't think Kanye West can support his view that George W. Bush just doesn't care about black people. But it's a demonstrable matter of fact that Bush doesn't care much about black votes. And that, in the end, may amount to the same thing.

It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.

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