Against the ASSAULT of LAUGHTER, NOTHING can STAND.

The basic right to QUALITY and affordable HEALTH care is under assault by Donald TRUMP and REPUBLICANS in Washington.

The major political BATTLES about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not LONG arms like HUNTING rifles.

The biggest THREAT to any POLITICIAN is an ARTIST. COMEDIANS unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

I THINK that there should be an ASSAULT WEAPONS ban.

I was a militant SMOKER, and in my case, I think I particularly used SMOKING because what I felt was a kind of POLITICALLY correct big BROTHER assault on smoking.

I don't KNOW anyone in the HUNTING or sporting ARENA that GOES out with an assault rifle.

The linear, single SPECIES idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. SOMETHING's going to break down in that system - ANYTHING from soil STRUCTURE, in economics... but where to START is with true ecological function.

We in Congress must take ACTION to KEEP assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so dangerous or DERANGED or deluded that they can snuff out the LIFE of innocents on a whim.

The ASSAULT WEAPON ban in this COUNTRY should be reinstated.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a STRONGER future for their children faces ASSAULT from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic CAPITALISM, economic INEQUALITY, is real and growing.

It was QUITE RISKY to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm KIND of trying, I think, to lure READERS into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories.

Decades ago, women SUFFERED through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used DANGEROUS methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to LIMIT ACCESS to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP TRYING to send women back... to the back alley?

I definitely think there should be stronger gun safety laws, including prohibiting the SALE of ASSAULT weapons, probably banning the sale of certain magazines that ALLOW you to fire a large amount of bullets.