There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.