An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

They committed arson on federal property a crime now punishable by up to twenty years in prison if no one is hurt and punishable by up to life in prison if the arson causes a person’s death. Bush (who had reportedly considered Simpson for the vice presidency in 1988) and Vice President Dick Cheney – another UW alumnus – and his wife Lynne V. Bebout defeated the two but then lost the general election to the Democratic nominee Dave Freudenthal a former United States Attorney appointed by U.

Alan Kooi Simpson (born September 2 1931) is an American politician who served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States Senator from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party. Simpson was appointed in 2010 to co-chair President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina.