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

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'

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

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

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

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.