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What Do You Do In A Novel? You Take Recognizable Characters From Your Own Life, And You Fantasize About What They're Really Like.

Bush Promised A Foreign Policy Of Humility And A Domestic Policy Of Compassion. He Has Given Us A Foreign Policy Of Arrogance And A Domestic Policy That Is Cynical, Myopic And Cruel.

For The Past Several Years, I've Been Harboring A Fantasy, A Last Political Crusade For The Baby-boom Generation. We, Who Started On The Path Of Righteousness, Marching For Civil Rights And Against The War In Vietnam, Need To Find An Appropriately High-minded Approach To Life's Exit Ramp.

Political Courage Requires Clarity. The Obama Administration Chose The Tortured Route Of Arguing The Legality Of The Individual Mandate Via The Interstate Commerce Clause For One Simple Reason: It Did Not Want To Take The Political Risk Of Allowing Opponents To Call It A Tax Increase. That Was Stupid. The Republicans Were Calling It A Tax Increase Anyway.

You Can Be As Critical As You Want Of Black Lives Matter. I'm Critical Of Him, Too. But To Say That They Have Caused Shooting Of Police Officers, I Think Is A Bridge Too Far.