[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine read more

[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine cones.] I was making little pine-cone people with razor blades, ... That's all I did.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in read more

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Arkansas taxpayers, firemen, nurses, teachers, police officers, and other public servants are the ones who are really going to be read more

Arkansas taxpayers, firemen, nurses, teachers, police officers, and other public servants are the ones who are really going to be paying the price of this tax - not the oil companies. State employees will see the value of their funds reduced and taxpayers will be left to make up the losses.

Supplies of imported coal into the United States are expected to increase substantially over the next several years as power read more

Supplies of imported coal into the United States are expected to increase substantially over the next several years as power generators and other industrial end users work to comply with stricter air emission standards, and as production from the Central Appalachian coal basin continues to decline.

I just want us to be known as a football team, ... A program.

I just want us to be known as a football team, ... A program.

I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,

I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,

Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those read more

Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed.

We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The read more

We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The attack on the prophet is an attack on us.

It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control.

It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control.