You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement read more

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell read more

Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has read more

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

For Minnesota, it's too many shots and too many chances. Once they got some pressure in our end, it was read more

For Minnesota, it's too many shots and too many chances. Once they got some pressure in our end, it was tough to overcome.

The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. read more

The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. The troops have not been protected. We need to bring them home.

I'm feeling more hopeful now than I did a few months ago. I look for them to announce a settlement read more

I'm feeling more hopeful now than I did a few months ago. I look for them to announce a settlement on the retirements in the next few days.

The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... read more

The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons.

She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed.

She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed.