If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.