You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.

Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote.