To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.