With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.