I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

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