The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.