Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.