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

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

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

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

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

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.