The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray."

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.

African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.