The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

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

It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.

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

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.