Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.