When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.

Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and Medicare and federal government solutions. But if you think through the analysis, strengthening state rights is a good corrective of the aggregation of an over-reaching federal power.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

Conservatives' views of liberals are just as distorted as ours are of conservatives.

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.