But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

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.

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

When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.