Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.