If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?