And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.