Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.