*Penny Rants: Notes of a Sanctimonious Purist, 2005-2012* collects posts from Alec Mento's long-running political action weblog, *Thieves in the Temple*. Each page of *Penny Rants* devotes one paragraph to one subject, and slices through the drama and bombast of contemporary American politics. Fierce, uncompromising, and withering, but always forward-looking and never cynical, *Penny Rants* argues that liberals have the right answers to today's pressing questions -- and have a more substantial claim to *moral* certainty than right-wingers do.