What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationa...
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Gar...
I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.
In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of ...
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.
When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland -...
I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.
in these shitty plastic days ...
Every promise comes with a price and prize.
Freedom was the price of privacy.
I walk with a dual longing for life and for death.
I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.
I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.
A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.
Death lurked everywhere. Death was alive and well.
For a girl there is a shorter version of youth.
A girl could get to hate Doms.
Boys will be boys. Well, some boys will be girls.
Running made you look guilty.
The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...
