Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.

I want to act in America's interest and stop making shallow, sweeping claims about countries we don't fully understand and hope everything will be fine in the end. I saw that happen and it didn't work.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?