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

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.

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."

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.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

What place, then, for a creator?

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.