The apocalypse is not around the corner.

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.

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.

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.

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.

It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

People have the freedom to say what they want, and I get it - mean stuff sells better than nice stuff.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

I am my brain's publisher.

Lot, who said to his wife as she was being turned into a pillar of salt, Stop shaking! Never got a dinner!

The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.