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

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

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 . . .

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Happiness is impossible without gratitude.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.