The laws governing judges and judicial campaigns require the utmost degree of professionalism and honesty. Collin County should expect more from a judge. A judge should seek the truth, not disregard it.

I'm not behind this because someone has yelled louder. I do believe it is right for all the kids. It's where the neighborhood is going to be in the future.

It's been gratifying. In 12 years, I've never seen a crowd like that.

She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins?

Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves; if she doesn't court disapproval, reproach, and general wrath, whether of friends, family, or party apparatchiks; if the writer submits his work to an internal censor long before anyone else can get their hands on it, the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.

In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can't fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.