In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher'...Not that he would.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

I think that liberals need to grow up.