The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent, and unpretentious, these are the young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.