I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.

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.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

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

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

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

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