If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.