Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.