The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.