Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

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

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

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.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

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

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.