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.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

My family is more important than my party.

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

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.