Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

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

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.