If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

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.