That made me think of a fundamental truth: unemployment benefits are only for people once employed as employees.

FORBES: 'Tis The Season For Unemployment (Benefits)

Now, before I get off the topic of the education, let me do a little more truth-telling.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles

I'm looking for something in the middle that will give me a sense of who's telling the truth here.

NPR: Before Congress, Clemens Insists He Is Innocent

It is a wonderful truth about America one of its powerful attractions for millions of immigrants like me that you may think and say whatever you wish as long as you do not act on your beliefs in a way that harms others.

WSJ: Why the U.S. Needs a New Loyalty Oath

And I appointed a Special Review Board, the Tower Board, which took on the chore of pulling the truth together for me and getting to the bottom of things.

CNN: Iran-Contra Affair

This inviolate "death and taxes" truth sustained me--a peace-loving granny, a tree-hugging liberal--through 64 years of protected, upper-middle-class subsistence.

NEWSWEEK: Culture

So, this month as my first book, Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God: 51 Women Reveal the Power of Positive Female Connection, the first in a series of anthologies, launches on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in both print and ebook versions, I hope to learn from the mistakes I watched Borders make.

FORBES: An Industry in Turmoil: From Borders Bookstores to Self-Publishing