There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If you read Benjamin Franklin, who was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in the United States and the most distinguished representative of the movement here, he actually advised that the newly founded republic should block Germans and Swedes because they were too "swarthy" - dark.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.

If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.

It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs.