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?

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

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.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.