Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

If pain were water, the world would drown

Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right . . .

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.