The truly persuasive must step out of themselves and see their own flaws first and admit they could be wrong. Then, when they correct for that, you can be truly persuasive.

True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.

What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.

Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.

What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

Thanks to an immersive lifestyle that involves Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, we've created a psychological three-sided mirror for our social impact on others.

Here is a fact: If Facebook were a religion, it will be the third largest behind Islam and Christianity. Its success is rooted and capitalizing on the human desire to bond.

A troll's life is a no-physical-contact existence. You will die alone, as you die daily, online.

As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.

I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.

Trump has manufactured the first-ever Celebrity Immunity Bubble - rendering him incapable of offense, no matter whom he offends. It's brilliant.

As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.

I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.

The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them the 'tolerati' - you know, a group of people who claim to be tolerant, except when they run into someone who disagrees with them.

Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.

Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.

Obama's tenure had more dirty linen then Charlie Sheen's hamper.

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.

I know that if I say something that's considered outrageous, a group will take it, create an email blast, and use me to raise money or to do whatever, to build their profile.

I know that, often, people in entertainment are surrounded by 'yes' men who tell you everything is 'go.' That's never been an issue for me.

When I imagine my viewer - and it sounds saccharine - but it's a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

For years, we talked about how the only way to really win the political battles was to win the cultural ones. And rather than simply ignore pop culture, it would be far better to give it a big fat bear hug.

I've said it before: If Queen had died and reincarnated as one person, it would be Devin Townsend.

If Obama was a sonnet, Trump is a limerick. And really, which ones do you enjoy more?

Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He's a totem pole of transparency.

The rise of ISIS, the orgy of identity politics, and the political changes they brought - how could Obama not see that coming? I blame the golf.

Hollywood is always about Hollywood.

Sully's' upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.

President Obama's farewell speech soared, towered, dragged. True, it was longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and GWB's speeches combined. If it got any longer, it would have qualified as a third term.

Normally, 'Saturday Night Live' is about as entertaining as an ocular migraine.

Something to keep in mind, whether you adore Obama or Trump: Drooling toadyism is not a good look on either side, and it paves the way for evil. Because while hate can drive people to do many things, love permits leaders to do all things - none of them good.

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

Imagine Earth as a crime-ridden town, and there is one safe house. How do you keep that safe house, America, always safe? It is called vigilance.

Before there was radical Islam, immigration and terror didn't mix.

Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.

Islamists are nothing but guided missiles that pride themselves on taking out as many infidels as possible.

Trump's policies are a mix of fairly traditional things. Even his immigration stuff isn't really that new.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.