Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.