The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

I think politics is everything.

I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.

Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn't have to be a member of congress. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker.