Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

My family is more important than my party.

You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.