Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.