Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

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

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Not everyone wants to be happy

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

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.