President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.