It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

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.

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.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

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

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

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.