If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.