The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly, men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.