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

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Barack Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

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.