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

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

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

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

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

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

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.