Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.