History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity.

I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.

I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources.

The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.