Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

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.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

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

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

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

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.