Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

It's very important, who has the most delegates. The superdelegates should not be the ones making the decision.

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.

Love is the door to Heaven

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.