There are millions of men who actually feel confident that women's freedom doesn't erode their own strength and sexuality and humanity. To those men, I say...
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Sexuality is not a choice—it is a natural, immutable...
The left need to recognize this new paradigm. The media is no longer in the business of truth, or advocacy of the public good. -- Steve Almond FOX is not per...
Dear Fellow Lefties, I've renamed this weekly mailing to reflect the title my new book "What Liberals Believe." (It's still free -- no strings attached.) The...
It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is just and noble in human affairs. -- George McGovern For America's CEO's, my...
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all . . . who have the courage to remake the world...
Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual...
If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. "Hello, can't work today, still queer." -- Robin Tyler If the Republican presidential...
35 years after the Supreme Court affirmed that women have the right to make their own reproductive choices . . . the right to choose is hanging by a thread. --...
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and...
Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them. -- Barack Obama If you don't know who and what you're fighting for, you will be, I think, utterly...
Our current commander in chief . . . has plunged the country in to the most disastrous war of its history - a war fought entirely on borrowed funds. -- Dave...
Security details at Barack Obama's rally . . . [in Dallas - of all places] stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the...
Why has the Bible been expelled from the public schools, as some religious conservatives complain? Well it hasn't. . . . Public school can teach about the...
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money, it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrats...
The only thing more dangerous than a President willing to undermine our most fundamental freedoms is a Congress willing to let him get away with it. -- Anthony...
Not one of the remaining political candidates -- not Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, much less John McCain -- talks about significantly downsizing the...
Only about 70 percent of the one million American students who start ninth grade each year graduate four years later. -- Sam Dillon There are two kinds of...
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. -- W.H. Auden John McCain . . . dumped his first wife (the mother...
God forgive America -- Banner unfurled in front of the White House in protest of the Iraq occupation My whole life I have sought deep enduring love. This...
No Child Left Behind['s] . . . stated purpose is to improve public education, but its covert purpose has been to undermine it so that public schools can be...
The heart of progressive-liberal values is simple: empathy (caring about and for people) and responsibility (acting responsibly on that empathy). -- George...
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop Arguments over whether U.S. forces can prevail in Iraq bypass a truth that no amount of media spin...
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -- John Ruskin Solar power is one of the most hopeful...
Let us have faith that right makes might. -- Abraham Lincoln We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most...
Beware when you fight a dragon, lest you become a dragon. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Blessed are the...
Loving your country shouldn't just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July; loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to...
The share of Americans who describe themselves as Republicans is plummeting so quickly, pretty soon more voters will call themselves Hobbits than Republicans. ...
Daughters . . . make fathers think differently about the world and the future it offers. -- Peggy Drexler Terrorists arise in all cultures, all nations and all...
We are made kind by being kind. -- Eric Hoffer. Health care is a human right, not a commodity. -- Kristen Hannum The world is running out of freshwater . . ....
