That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

One of the genuine phenomenons over the past four decades has been the liberal community's steadfast insistence that God should be barred from the public sphere. This is not law. It is religious prejudice.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.