Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

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

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

I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.