I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.