We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.