That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.