I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population they are targeted. Nor can I support any spending increases that are not related to improving our nation's defense from the obvious and serious threats facing us today.

Torture doesn't work.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

Stocks have tanked. Shouldn't you have asked for that money back?

The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.