In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.