The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.

The term 'disrupter' has become an accolade, like first-responder or something.

Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.

I never went to college to make money.

I came of age when jobs were plentiful and college not exorbitantly expensive. I graduated with debt, but it was manageable, and I set off to do something I loved - journalism.

I value my education, but I cannot put a value on it. I know it has been worth some money to me - I don't think 'The Post' would have hired me if I had lacked a degree - but I probably could have earned about the same if I had stayed in the insurance business, where I worked while going to college at night.

There is precious little that's charitable about the world of charity.

Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.

Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.

Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.

As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

Travelgate eventually faded, and the nation somehow survived - American exceptionalism at work again.

Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.

I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.

Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.

I met Clinton during her husband's first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped at a coffee shop to greet the folks and get something to eat.

What if Hillary Clinton were a man? What if she were a 68-year-old man rather than a 68-year-old woman? Would we think differently of her?

It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was called an actor. But Reagan's acting experience, his ability to talk to the camera and not yell to the hall, is what helped make him such a good politician. It is the same with Trump.

With a sinking feeling, I have come to a horrible conclusion: I am addicted to Donald Trump.

Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?

What's the justification for a semiautomatic weapon with a magazine of 30 rounds?

The NRA has led the way in the mainstreaming of a demented gun ideology.

If you told me back in my Army days that I could have bought the same weapon that I had been using in training, I would not have believed it.