The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.