Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.