In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Good morals lead to good laws.

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

The absence of him is everywhere I look.