People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.
The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.
Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't.
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
I don't care what anybody thinks.
Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.
Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.
I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.
Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.
Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.
America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.
It is increasingly important to be open-minded.
I try to tell the truth.
It's normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.
