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.

I think politics is everything.

I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.

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

I always love it when a small paper wins. When I was growing up in the Bronx, the editor of the Riverdale Press - a neighborhood rag - kept submitting his columns for a Pulitzer. We laughed and laughed at his ego. He finally won.

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.