We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.