I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools