Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.