People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.