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Whenever You Bring Up Women's Internal Workings, Guys Want To Change The Subject. Unless, Of Course, They're Trying To Change The Laws.

Now My Poor Hometown Is Being Castigated As The Center Of An Irs Scandal. Humble Workers At The Cincinnati Office Targeted Tea Party Groups And Other Conservative Organizations For Special Scrutiny When Those Groups Applied For Tax-exempt Status. There's No Conceivable Excuse For That. It Was Deeply, Deeply Wrong.

The High Point Was That The People Are Really Nice - Despite The Crazy Politics - And I Loved Being There. The Hardest Part Was Knowing Some Of The Things I Was Probably Going To Write About Texas Would Make Those Nice People Very Unhappy.

Women In America Will Have To Find An Answer For The Pressures Of Work And Family, But If You Really Care About Women's Issues You Have To Think About Women In The World, Especially Africa, Asia And The Middle East.

The Whole Student Loan Thing Drives Me Completely Nuts. If It Wasn't Possible For 18-year-olds To Sign Themselves Up For Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Debt In Order To Pay Their College Bills, The State Governments Wouldn't Have Found It So Politically Easy To Cut Taxpayer Support For Public Colleges And Universities.