For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does all the things that hurt particularly the poor in our society.

Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.