America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.